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Jan Soens (; – ), also known as Giovanni Sons, was a Dutch Painting from 's-Hertogenbosch who mainly worked in Italy.

Biography

According to Karel van Mander he moved to Antwerp to live with a schoolmaster named Jacob Boon, whereupon he taught himself the rudiments of painting. Jan Soens in Karel van Mander's Schilder-boeck, 1604, courtesy of the Digital Library for Dutch Literature After becoming proficient, he moved in with the painter Gillis Mostaert, and assisted him creating landscape paintings in the manner of Gillis' twin brother Frans Mostaert. A few of these early landscapes could be seen in Amsterdam at the home of Hendrick Louwersz Spieghel at the time Karel van Mander was writing in 1604. Soens and he had met during Karel van Mander's trip to Italy, where Soens made small pieces on copper for the Pope in Rome.

According to the RKD he was in Rome from 1573 and in Parma from 1575. Jan Soens in the RKD He was particularly active from 1575 with the Farnese in Rome, and in Piacenza and Parma in the early seventeenth century.Béguin (1990): 275; 278. He painted History painting works, such as the Mannerism Jupiter and Antiope, Museo di Capodimonte (Italian) as well as Christian art paintings reflecting the Council of Trent's decrees on art and Counter Reformation ideals of clearly represented piety.Béguin (1990): 278. He died in Parma between 1611 and 1614.

Notes

Béguin, Sylvie. "An Unpublished Drawing by Jan Soens at Windsor Castle." Master Drawings, vol. 28, no. 3. (Autumn, 1990), pp. 275–279.
Museo di Capodimonte, Jan Sons, Jupiter and Antiope (Italian)
Jan Soens on Artnet