{{Short description|Dutch painter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}} [[File:Jan Soens Rinaldo e Armida.jpg|thumb|right|''Rinaldo and Armida'', from the play Jerusalem Delivered]] '''Jan Soens''' ({{IPA|nl|jɑn ˈsuns}}; {{c.|1547}} – {{c.|1611|lk=no}}), also known as '''Giovanni Sons''', was a Dutch painter 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.<ref name=Mander>{{in lang|nl}}<!--Middle Dutch--> [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/mand001schi01_01/mand001schi01_01_0262.htm Jan Soens] in Karel van Mander's ''Schilder-boeck'', 1604, courtesy of the Digital Library for Dutch Literature</ref> 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.<ref name=Mander/> 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.<ref name=Mander/> 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.<ref name=Mander/>

According to the RKD he was in Rome from 1573 and in Parma from 1575.<ref name=RKD>[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/73747 Jan Soens] in the RKD</ref> He was particularly active from 1575 with the Farnese in Rome, and in Piacenza and Parma in the early seventeenth century.<ref>Béguin (1990): 275; 278.</ref> He painted history works, such as the mannerist ''Jupiter and Antiope'',<ref>[http://capodimonte.spmn.remuna.org/cerca/cerca/Contents/Catalogo/createPage?inv=900104 Museo di Capodimonte (Italian)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930184506/http://capodimonte.spmn.remuna.org/cerca/cerca/Contents/Catalogo/createPage?inv=900104 |date=30 September 2007 }}</ref> as well as religious paintings reflecting the Council of Trent's decrees on art and Counter Reformation ideals of clearly represented piety.<ref>Béguin (1990): 278.</ref> He died in Parma between 1611 and 1614. {{Commons category}}

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==Bibliography== *Béguin, Sylvie. "An Unpublished Drawing by Jan Soens at Windsor Castle." ''Master Drawings'', vol. 28, no. 3. (Autumn, 1990), pp.&nbsp;275–279. *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930184506/http://capodimonte.spmn.remuna.org/cerca/cerca/Contents/Catalogo/createPage?inv=900104 Museo di Capodimonte, Jan Sons, ''Jupiter and Antiope'' (Italian)] *[http://www.artnet.com/artists/jan-(hans)-soens/past-auction-results Jan Soens]{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} on Artnet

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