Pieter Coecke van Aelst
Flemish artist
Also known as: Pierre d’Alost, van Aelst, Pieter Coecke
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influence on Pieter Bruegel, the Elder
- In Pieter Bruegel, the Elder: Life
…death), Bruegel was apprenticed to Pieter Coecke van Aelst, a leading Antwerp artist who had located in Brussels. The head of a large workshop, Coecke was a sculptor, architect, and designer of tapestry and stained glass who had traveled in Italy and in Turkey. Although Bruegel’s earliest surviving works show…
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