Michiel Coxcie

Self-portrait by Michiel Coxcie

Michiel Coxcie (born March 5, 1499 in Mechelen , † March 10, 1592 there ) was a Flemish painter .

Life

Michiel Coxcie was first a pupil of Bernard van Orley in Brussels . Then he went to Italy and was commissioned in Rome in 1531 to paint the frescoes of the Barbara chapel in the church of Santa Maria dell'Anima . He carried out this work in the style of Raphael . In 1539 he returned to Mechelen and became a member of the local Luke guild . After van Orley's death in 1541 he became court painter to the regent Maria of Hungary , for whom he decorated the Binche Castle . Thereupon he was also promoted by Emperor Charles V. He also became court painter to Philip II of Spain , after he had copied a famous altarpiece by the van Eyck brothers in Ghent , The Adoration of the Lamb , for him. The Duke of Alba also gave Coxcie his protection and once protected him from insults by Spanish soldiers in Mechelen. A fall from the stairs of the Antwerp town house, where he was busy doing wall paintings, caused his death, which took place in Mechelen in 1592.

Coxcie was a very prolific painter. In his work there are portraits, history pictures, church panels and frescoes. In his religious representations, Coxcie combined Flemish realism with Raphael's world of forms. He also made designs for glass paintings and carpets.

family

He married Ida van Hasselt († 1569) in Italy in 1639 . The couple had their son Raphael (* 1540; † after 1600), also a painter and married to Anna Jonghelinck. After the death of his first wife, he married Johanna van Schelle in 1569 . The couple had three children: Michael, Konrad and Anna. The widow later married Philipp van Roy.

Works

• Copy of the Descent from the Cross (Rogier van der Weyden) in the Bode Museum
• Copy of the Ghent Altarpiece by Hubert and Jan van Eyck , partly in the Bode Museum
• Tapestries in the Wawel Castle in Kraków

literature

• Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt:  Coxcyen, Michael van . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, pp. 537-539.
• Michel Coxcie, pictor regis (1499–1592): Internationaal Colloquium, Mechelen, June 5 and 6, 1992 / papers related to Raphaël de Smedt. - Mechelen, 1993. - 287 p .: numerous. Ill .; (Dutch, French, English; Handelingen van de Koninklijke Kring voor Oudheidkunde, Letteren en Kunst van Mechelen; 96. boekdeel, 2. aflevering).

Web links

Commons : Michiel Coxcie  - Collection of images, videos and audio files