Publisher's Synopsis
Michiel Coxcie lived to the age of 93 and witnessed all the important political, religious, economic, and artistic upheavals of the sixteenth century. In his day Coxcie was a celebrated painter, inundated with prestigious commissions from important clients. Back in the Netherlands after having spent ten years in Rome studying classical antiquity and the art of Renaissance masters like Raphael, Michelangelo and Leonardo, Coxcie designed altarpieces, stained glass windows and tapestries for clients in Brussels, Antwerp, and Mechelen. This book focuses on the multifaceted OEuvre of a highly talented yet all but forgotten master who, by introducing the art of the Italian High Renaissance into the Netherlands, earned himself the epithet of the 'Flemish Raphael'.
