Jan Kraeck (1540, Haarlem – 1607,

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. Th ...

, it, Giovanni Caracca), was a

Dutch Renaissance The Renaissance in the Low Countries was a cultural period in the Northern Renaissance that took place in around the 16th century in the Low Countries (corresponding to modern-day Belgium, the Netherlands and French Flanders). Culture in the Low ...

painter who established his career in

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, in the

royal court A royal court, often called simply a court when the royal context is clear, is an extended royal household in a monarchy, including all those who regularly attend on a monarch, or another central figure. Hence, the word "court" may also be appl ...

of the

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in Turin.

Biography

According to Karel van Mander he was visited by Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom in 1585 in Turin.Ian Kraeck
in

Karel van Mander Karel van Mander (I) or Carel van Mander I (May 1548 – 2 September 1606) was a Flemish painter, poet, art historian and art theoretician, who established himself in the Dutch Republic in the latter part of his life. He is mainly remember ...

's ''

Schilder-boeck or is a book written by the Flemish writer and painter Karel van Mander first published in 1604 in Haarlem in the Dutch Republic, where van Mander resided. The book is written in 17th-century Dutch and its title is commonly translated into En ...

'', 1604, courtesy of the

Digital library for Dutch literature The Digital Library for Dutch Literature (Dutch: Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren or DBNL) is a website (showing the abbreviation as dbnl) about Dutch language and Dutch literature. It contains thousands of literary texts, second ...

According to the RKD he was the father-in-law of the painter-architect

Friedrich Sustris Friedrich Sustris (c. 1540, in Padua – 1599, in Munich) was an Italian-Dutch painter, decorator and architect. He was a son of the artist Lambert Sustris, who worked in Italy. Sustris got his training from his father Lambert in Venice and Padu ...

and became court painter to Emanuel Philibert, duc de Savoie and after the duke died in 1580, to the duke's successor Charles Emanuel I.Jan Kraeck
in the RKD

Works

*''The

Holy Family The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph. The subject became popular in art from the 1490s on, but veneration of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 17th century by Saint François de Laval, the first ...

'' (1568-1578), Sabauda Gallery *''Three armoured men in prayer in front of the Holy Virgin and Child'' (1568-1585), Sabauda Gallery *''Portrait of

Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy Charles Emmanuel I ( it, Carlo Emanuele di Savoia; 12 January 1562 – 26 July 1630), known as the Great, was the Duke of Savoy from 1580 to 1630. He was nicknamed (, in context "the Hot-Headed") for his rashness and military aggression. Being ...

'' (1580), Fundacion Yannick y Ben JakoberNins catalogue
Fundacion Yannick y Ben Jakober *''Portrait of Philip Emmanuel of Savoy, five years old'' (1591),

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Felipe Manuel de Saboya a los cinco años
Museo del Prado *''

Victor Amadeus I Victor Amadeus I ( it, Vittorio Amedeo I di Savoia; 8 May 1587 – 7 October 1637) was the Duke of Savoy from 1630 to 1637. He was also known as the ''Lion of Susa''.Emmanuel Philibert and Philip Emmanuel of Savoy'' (1593-1594), Fundacion Yannick y Ben Jakober *''Portrait of Philip Emmanuel of Savoy'' (c. 1603, attributed), Fundacion Yannick y Ben Jakober

References

Bibliography

*Astrua Paola, Bava Anna Maria, Spantigati Carla Enrica, ''Il nostro pittore fiamengo'' (''Our Flemish Painters''), Giovanni Carraca alla corte dei Savoia (1568–1607), Turin, Umberto Allemandi & C, 1955, 2002 and 2006 editions. ()

External links

Biography at the Museo del Prado Online Encyclopedia

Jan Kraeck
on

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kraeck, Jan 1540 births 1607 deaths Dutch Renaissance painters Artists from Haarlem Court painters Dutch expatriates in Italy