19 facts about Jan Soens

Jan Soens (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjɑn ˈsuns]; c. 1547 – c. 1611), also known as Giovanni Sons, was a Dutch painter from ‘s-Hertogenbosch.

According to Karel van Mander he moved to Antwerp to live later a schoolmaster named Jacob Boon, whereupon he taught himself the rudiments of painting. After becoming proficient, he moved in subsequently the painter Gillis Mostaert, and assisted him creating landscape paintings gone Gillis’ twin brother Frans Mostaert. A few of these into the future landscapes could be seen in Amsterdam at the home of Hendrick Louwersz Spieghel at the period Karel van Mander was writing in 1604. Soens and he had met during Karel van Mander’s vacation to Italy, where Soens made little pieces upon copper for the Pope in Rome.

According to the RKD he was in Rome from 1573 and in Parma from 1575. He was particularly responsive from 1575 past the Farnese in Rome, and in Piacenza and Parma in the prematurely seventeenth century. He painted archives works, such as the mannerist Jupiter and Antiope, as competently as religious paintings reflecting the Council of Trent’s decrees upon art and Counter Reformation ideals of clearly represented piety. He died in Parma surrounded by 1611 and 1614.