biography
pronunciation:
[skorel]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1495–1562)
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| biography:
| Painter, architect, and engineer, born in Schoorel, The Netherlands. He trained in Amsterdam, and by 1517 was working in Utrecht. He made extensive travels in Europe, and was influenced by the work of Giorgione in Venice. After a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, he returned to Italy in 1521. In Rome, Pope Adrian VI appointed him inspector of the Belvedere, and sat for a portrait (1523). He studied the work of Michelangelo and Raphael, returned to Utrecht in 1524, and established the style of the Italian Renaissance in Holland. Noted particularly for his portraiture, his group portraits of pilgrims to Jersualem can be seen at Utrecht and Haarlem. |
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