Geertgen tot Sint Jans: A Whisper of Genius from Haarlem Geertgen tot Sint Jans, a name that echoes softly through the halls of Early Netherlandish art, remains shrouded in intriguing mystery. Flourishing in Haarlem during the latter half of the 15th century – roughly between 1460 and 1490 – his artistic legacy is pieced together primarily from the insightful observations of Karel van Mander, a Dutch art historian writing over a century after the artist’s untimely death. Van Mander suggests a connection to the Knights Hospitaller of Saint John in Haarlem, lending the artist his distinctive s…