Jan van Scorel

Jan van Scorel was a Dutch painter and priest who played a leading part in bringing Italian Renaissance painting to the Netherlands. He travelled widely, visiting Venice and Jerusalem, and in Rome the Dutch pope Adrian VI made him keeper of the papal collection of antiquities. Back in Utrecht from 1524 he painted altarpieces, portraits and group portraits of pilgrims to Jerusalem, and trained Antonis Mor. His Mary Magdalene is in the Rijksmuseum.