DETAILS
- Artist
- Pieter Coecke van Aelst
- Date
- 1501
- Location
- Museo del Prado
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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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