Jan Massijs or Jan Matsys (alternative spellings of family name: Massys, Matsijs, Messijs, Messys, Metsijs, Metsys) (c.1510, Antwerp – 8 Oct. 1575, Antwerp); Flemish Renaissance painter known for his history paintings, genre scenes and landscapes. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Matsys) Son of Quentin Massys, one of the first and most important artists of the Antwerp School. His name does not appear in the list of apprentices of the Antwerp painters’ guild as he was probably trained by his father, who, as a member of the guild was not obliged to register his own son. Jan became an independent master in Antwerp immediately following his father’s death in 1531. In 1538 he married Anna van Tuylt. In 1544 he was suspected of heresy and exiled, not returning to Antwerp until 1555. His whereabouts during the decade of his exile have not been established with certainty. As no dated or documented works have preserved from the period before his exile, it is impossible to determine his early style and sources of influence while in exile, besides the logical influence of his father. It has been suggested that Jan Massys stayed in Italy and also in France – the influence of the School of Fontainebleau is definitely present in his mature work. His only dated work from his exile period is the overtly Italianate “Madonna and child” from 1552, in the Palazzo Bianco, Genoa, Italy. Many of the paintings from the artist’s “second Antwerp period” are dated, thus facilitating the chronology of Jan Massys’s later works and understanding of his creative development among the artists of Antwerp. Hiss works are exhibited in many museums around the world, including the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; the Museum of Art History, Vienna; the Louvre Museum, Paris; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, ; the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California; the Palazzo Bianco, Genoa, Italy; the National Museum of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden. (http://artrules.ee/art/jan-massys/) undefined

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