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Item Number: 127234
Title: MICHIEL COXCIE : De Vlaamse Rafaël
Author: Jonckheere, Koenraad
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9789063066598
Description: Leuven: Davidsfonds, 2013. 28cm., pbk., 128pp. illus., most in color. Exhibition held at M Museum, Leuven. Dutch text. From the museum's website: Michiel Coxcie (1499 - 1592) was known to his contemporaries as “The Flemish Raphael”. The nickname illustrates just how highly they rated Coxcie’s talent. And rightly so, for Coxcie was one of the sixteenth century’s most influential painters. In his day Michiel Coxcie was a celebrated painter, inundated with prestigious commissions from important clients. He had spent some ten years in Rome where he studied classical antiquity and the art of Renaissance masters like Raphael, Michelangelo and Da Vinci. Back in his own country, Coxcie designed altarpieces, stained-glass windows and tapestries for clients in Brussels, Antwerp and Mechelen. The pinnacle of his career was his appointment as court painter to Emperor Charles V and Philip II. Coxcie’s contemporaries drew inspiration from his innovative style and compositions and even in the centuries after his death artists still marvelled at his oeuvre. Peter Paul Rubens was one of those inspired by Coxcie. However, over the centuries Coxcie gradually fell into oblivion and today the general public barely knows his name. So it is high time we put the spotlight on Michiel Coxcie! In Michiel Coxcie. The Flemish Raphael, the first retrospective of the talented master’s multifaceted oeuvre, a large number of paintings, monumental stained-glass windows, graphics and tapestries adorn the walls of the M- Museum Leuven. The exhibition covers the various aspects of Coxcie’s life and work, from his youth and his stay in Italy through to his greatest achievements in the Netherlands. Paintings by Coxcie from the M collection are juxtaposed with European loans. Among other things, you will see Coxcie’s famous copy of the Lamb of God. This imposing work is shown in its entirety for the first time.
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