DETAILS
- Artist
- Pieter Coecke van Aelst
- Date
- 1525
- Location
- Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
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THE ARTIST
Pieter Coecke van Aelst
Pieter Coecke van Aelst was a Flemish Renaissance polymath whose translations of architectural treatises helped spread Italian Renaissance ideas across Northern Europe.
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