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	Jan Steen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jan Havickszoon Steen (born 1626 (?) in Leiden, died January 1, 1679 in Leiden) was a Dutch painter of the 17th century (also known as the Dutch Golden Age).
		Steen then moved into the house of landscape painter Jan van Goyen (1596-1656) in The Hague, and married van Goyen's daughter Margriet.
		jan steen is also mentioned in a dutch saying "een huishouden van jan steen" (the household of jan steen) meaning: having a bad, messy household.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jan_Steen (515 words)

	Jan Steen
		Steen (born 1626 (?) in Leiden, died January 1, 1679 in Leiden) was a Dutch painter of the 17th century (also known as the Dutch Golden Age).
		Whether Steen actally studied with Ostade is not known.
		In 1654 Steen moved to Delft, where he ran brewery De Roscam (The Curry Comb) without much succes.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ja/Jan_Steen.html (452 words)

	Jan Steen - AMAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Although the focus in the Oberlin painting is clearly on the action in the foreground, the man with the flat cap silhouetted in the doorway at the rear has been identified as a portrait of the artist.
		Jan Steen was born in Leiden probably in 1626; although the precise date of his birth is not known, in 1646 he was recorded as a student at Leiden University, aged twenty.
		1603-1655) in Utrecht, Adriaen van Ostade in Haarlem, and of the landscape painter Jan van Goyen in Leiden.
	www.oberlin.edu /allenart/collection/steen_jan.html (1413 words)

	Biography
		In Holland he ranks next to Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Hals in popularity and a 'Jan Steen household' has become an epithet for an untidy house.
		Steen was born in Leiden and is said to have studied with Adriaen van Ostade in Haarlem and Jan van Goyen (who became his father-in-law) in The Hague.
		Apart from his versatility, richness of characterization, and inventiveness in composition, Steen is remarkable also for his skill as a colourist, his handling of salmon-red, rose, pale yellow, and blue-green being highly distinctive.
	www.wga.hu /bio/s/steen/biograph.html (244 words)

	Jan Steen (Getty Museum) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A prosperous brewer's son, Steen enrolled in Leyden University in 1646, but by 1648 he was helping to found the Leyden Guild of Saint Luke.
		Steen was not one to stay put; he lived in The Hague; Haarlem; Leyden, where he ran a tavern; and Delft, where he leased a brewery.
		Steen's skill in rendering light and texture rank him with Gerard ter Borch.
	www.getty.edu /art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=183&page=1 (195 words)

	Jan Steen Online
		Jan Steen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
		Jan Steen at the National Gallery, London, UK North Carolina Museum of Art
		Jan Steen in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/steen_jan.html (413 words)

	Jan Steen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Jan Steen (1625/26-1679) was a Dutch genre painter Jan Steen was born in Leiden c.
		Steen probably received his training in Utrecht from Nicolaes Knüpfer, and worked in the workshops of in 1649.
		From 1661 till 1670 he was in Haarlem, and finally settled for the last ten years of his life again in Leiden where he obtained a license to run a tavern (since 1672).
	www.angelo.edu /faculty/rprestia/1301/definitions/steen.htm (246 words)

	Jan Steen
		The Amusements of Jan Steen: Comic Painting in the Seventeenth Century
		The Religious and Historical Paintings of Jan Steen
		Oorkonden in steen : 17e en 18e eeuwse grafzerken op de oude begraafplaats van Huisduinen/Den Helder
	www.news-server.org /j/ja/jan_steen.html (523 words)

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		Jan Steen interprets the moralistic truths of Dutch genre painting as a humorist, using images of fl comedy in which realistic action and didactic advice are confused.
		In "Beware of Luxury Steen describes various instances of intemperance in a dissolute household, alluding to common Dutch proverbs and aphorisms.
		The punishment is also found in the painting in the form of sword and crutches hanging in a basket from the ceiling.
	www.khm.at /staticE/page250.html (140 words)

	Jan Steen (1626 - 1679) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Jan Steen was the son of a successful brewer and began studying at the Leyden University in 1646.
		Many of Steen’s painting were humorous depictions of tavern scenes, although he also produced quiet interior scenes with moral, proverbial, and literary allusions.
		Jan Steen, The Marriage of Tobias and Sarah (The Marriage Contract), circa 1673
	wwar.com /masters/s/steen-jan.html (939 words)

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		Jan Steen is a painter who first roughly colours the background and only later fills in the foreground detail.
		This is a macro-photograph of the tabletop edge which shows clearly how someone who thought Jan Steen's way of painting too untidy, overpainted it with a solid brown layer.
		Steen, who often depicted this chair in his interiors, always painted all of it.
	www.museumbredius.nl /reconstr.htm (1174 words)

	Jan Havicksz. Steen - Rijksmuseum
		Steen was born in Leiden in 1626, the son of a brewer.
		Little is known for certain about Steen's apprenticeship as a painter.
		Early eighteenth-century biographers of artists record that he was taught by various painters: Nicolaus Knupfer, Adriaen van Ostade as well as landscape painter Jan van Goyen, whose daughter he married in 1649.
	www.rijksmuseum.nl /aria/aria_artists/00017185?lang=en (313 words)

	Jan Steen
		He bases his theory on the internal evidence of such early pictures as the "Market at Leiden", the "Kermesse", "Calling for the Bride", and "St. John's Sermon." About the year 1644 Steen went to Haarlem, where he worked under Adrian van Ostade and under Jan Josephs van Goyen, whose daughter he married in 1649.
		Some biographers have asserted that he was a drunkard, and of dissolute life, but the number of his works -- Van Westrheene, in his Jan Steen, étude sur l'art en Holland, has catalogued nearly five hundred and Hofstede de Groot about double that number -- seems sufficient in itself to disprove the charge.
		The works of Jan Steen are distinguished by correctness of drawing, admirable freedom and spirit of touch, and clearness and transparency of coloring.
	www.nndb.com /people/063/000097769 (460 words)

	Bagpipe Paintings: Jan Steen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Jan Steen has the first ever painting I've seen depicting what appears to be a woman playing the bagpipes.
		The "Adoration of the Shepherds" doesn't quite have the look of a Steen painting but according to Museum Bredius it is. Enjoy anyway.
		This is by Jan Steen based apparently on his family.
	www.prydein.com /pipes/paintings/steen/steenspage.html (174 words)

	Jan STEEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Steen's paintings frequently carry a moralistic message and the everyday objects depicted can be read as symbols of vice or virtue.
		A cat is often used to represent lasciviousness, while a flask refers to drunkenness.
		The revellers in the background look directly at the viewer, inviting us to share their ridicule of the couple.
	www.ngv.vic.gov.au /european/em_ipa00012.html (86 words)

	Jan Steen
		Last chance to save a painting by Jan Steen The Burgher of Delft and his Daughter (1655).
		Ordinary was radioactive to Charlie Steen, the uranium king.(Business)
		Ordinary was radioactive to Charlie Steen, the uranium king
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	Jan Steen
		Steen's teacher Knupfer produced a Tobias and Sara that was his example for this scene.
		The theme of a drunkard returning home supported by his(?) wife is a recurring one in Steen's oeuvre.
		This is (a 19th century copy of) a painting Jan Steen made for a bet with Frans van Mieris, about who would be the fastest in producing a painting of a certain size.
	www.museumbredius.nl /schilders/steen.htm (277 words)

	Amazon.com Books: ( S-U ) / Steen, Jan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Amusements of Jan Steen: Comic Painting in the Seventeenth Century (Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, Vol 1)
		Jan Steen: Comedy and Admonition (Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin, Winter 1982/Spring 1983, Volume 78, Number 337-38)
		Catalogue of a loan exhibition of pictures by Jan Steen: [held at the] Dowdeswell Galleries, May and June, l909
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/1421 (163 words)

	Jan Steen Posters Prints - Rustic Courtship Art Giclee Print - Artist: Jan Steen - Poster Size: 24x18 - SHOP.COM
		Jan Steen Posters Prints - Rustic Courtship Art Giclee Print - Artist: Jan Steen - Poster Size: 24x18
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	Amazon.com: Jan Steen : Painter and Storyteller: Books: H. Perry Chapman,Wouter Th. Kloek,Arthur K. Wheelock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The show collects 130 landscapes by plein air painters like Carl Blechen, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, Thomas Jones and, of course, Corot, all of whom worked in southern Italy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
		While the extroverted comic vitality that marks the painting of Jan Steen will not engender the hymnal praise evoked by the National Gallery's recent exhibition of Jan Vermeer's art, this important catalog proffers another splendid yet very different vision of Dutch Catholic pictorial genius in the 17th century.
		The more traditional essays offer a documentary reconstruction of the artist's life, stylistic development, and working methods, while others more provocatively attempt to offer deeper insight into the artist's persona, the problems of interpreting the paintings, and their relationship to a literary and social milieu.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0300067933?v=glance (1030 words)

	The Oxford Dictionary of Art: Steen, Jan @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In Holland he ranks next to Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Hals in popularity and the expression a ‘Jan Steen household’ has become part of the Dutch language to describe the kind of lively, untidy home depicted in so many of his paintings.
		According to Houbraken, Steen's ‘paintings are like his way of life and his way of life like his paintings’, and in his...
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	www.highbeam.com /doc/1O2:SteenJan/Steen,+Jan.html?refid=ip_hf (172 words)

	The Athenaeum - Displaying artworks for Jan Steen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Athenaeum - Displaying artworks for Jan Steen
		Please note that this list contains all of the artworks The Athenaeum has for Jan Steen, but they may have produced other works which are not yet on our site.
		As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young
	www.the-athenaeum.org /art/by_artist.php?id=438 (83 words)

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