Discover painter, court painter, draftsperson Michiel Coxie (I)

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: Coxcie, Michiel de (I)
Coxcie, Michiel (I)
Coxcien, Michiel (I)
Coxius, Michiel (I)
Michel de Malines
Mechelaon, Gillio
Michele Tedesco

Qualifications: painter, court painter, draftsperson, tapestry designer
was court artist for Mary of Hungary and Philip II of Spain (Neeffs 1876, p. 151 ff)

Nationality/school: South Netherlandish

Born: Mechelen 1497/1501
c. 1497-1501 (Saur 1999)

Deceased: Mechelen 1585-11-15
fell of a construction during a restauration in Antwerp; returned to Mechelen injured and died shortly afterwards (De Smedt 2011, p. 24); Ecartico mentions 10 March 1592 as the date of his death

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: Married to 1) Ide van Hasselt/Hesselt and 2) to Jeanne van Schallen/Schellen. Mentions three children in his testament of 1569, of whom Ide was the mother: Raphael, Guilliam and Anna. A second testament, made in October 1579, after his marriage to Jeanne (Neefs 1876, p. 149-151), mentions two more children, of whom Jeanne was the mother, Michiel and Conrad.

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154 hits in RKDimages as artist
14 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
126 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist
5 hits in RKDtechnical as artist

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Brussel 1520
c. 1520, according to Van Mander, he got his training in the studio of Bernard van Orley
Haarlem (stad) 1525
c. 1525, study trip to study the work of Jan van Scorel
Rome 1530 - 1539
arrived c. 1530-1531 (Saur 1999); according to Noack 1927 in Rome c. 1530, paid fee for painters' guild 07 June and 06 July 1534
Milaan 1539-08-07
is paid for a tapestry depicting the Nativity for the Cathedral of Milan (De Smedt 2011, p. 12, no. 24)
Mechelen 1539
mentioned as member of the guild Saint-Luc in Mechlin, 11th November 1539 (De Smedt 2011, p. 19)
Brussel 1543 - 1557
member of the guild in Brussels in 1543; court artist for Mary of Hungary (De Smedt 2011, p. 19-21)
Gent 1557
De Smedt 2011, p. 21
Mechelen 1559 - 1583
mainly active in Mechelen, but also travelled to Antwerp and Brussels (De Smedt 2011, p. 22-24)
Antwerpen (stad) 1583 - 1585
mentioned as a master in the Antwerp Guild in the receipts of dean Philips Galle for 26 September 1585 till 30 september 1586 (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961). In 1585 (NS) he rente d a house in Kloosterstraat (van Hemeldonck 2007)
Mechelen 1585

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Connections with other artists

Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Coxie, Raphael
Willems, Marcus
Followed by This field mentions the artist’s emulators. Although students can naturally also be followers, they are not mentioned again here. What is meant by followers are those who continue to work in the spirit of a predecessor. Sometimes this may happen a century later; there is no time limit. What is at issue, however, is that someone’s oeuvre must substantially follow in the manner of the artist emulated.: Houwens, Jan (I)
Huert, N. van
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Robin, Joris
Fernández de Navarrete, Juan

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: history (genre), portrait, landscape (genre), architecture (genre)

Medium/technique: oil paint
Product: design for stained glass, design for tapestry

Member of

Accademia di San Luca (Rome)
as: Michele Tedesco (De Smedt 2011)

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 14 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Van Mander 1604
Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1, p. 25-26
Van der Aa 1852-1878 , vol. 3 (1858), p. 800-801 (as: Michiel van Coxie)
Pinchart 1860 , vol. 2, onder: Van Coxyen, M.
Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961 , vol. 1, p. 301
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 8 (1913), p. 23-24
Noack 1927 , vol. 2, p. 129
Fokker 1931 (Werke Niederländischer Meister) , p. 21-22, 126
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 5 (1951), p. 62
Witt Checklist 1978
Turner et al. 1996 , vol. 8, p. 86-87 (as: Coxcie, Michiel (I))
Saur 1992- , vol. 22 (1999), p. 89 (as: Coxcie, Michiel (I))
Dacos/Meijer et al. 1995 , p. 169-173
Campbell 2002 , passim
Hartkamp-Jonxis/Smit 2004 , cat.no. 30, 69; p. 419 (biography)
Bénézit 2006 , vol. 4, p. 122
Martens 2010 , p. 187 ff. and passim
Dacos 2012 , passim
Cleland 2014 , passim
Harnack 2018 , passim
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

E. Van Erven, 'Mausolée de la famille Morillon à Louvain. Un triptique de Michel Coxie, de Malines', Le Messager des Sciences historiques des Arts et de la Bibliographie de Belgique (1857), p. 269-284
E. Neeffs, Histoire de la peinture et de sculpture à Malines, Ghent 1876, p. 143ff
M. Crick-Kuntzinger, 'Les 156 tapisseries Bruxelloises du Château Royal de Cracovie et leur importance pour l'histoire de l'art Flamand du XVIe sciècle', La Revue d’art, 27 (1926) p. 65–71
J. Gabriels, 'Het cultuurleven te Mechelen. I. De beeldende kunsten. I. Van Michiel Coxie tot Prosper de Troyer', in: R. Foncke et al. (eds.), Mechelen de Heerlijke, Mechelen 1938-1947, p. 325-402
M. Rick-Kuntzinger, 'Tapisseries de la Genèse d’après Michel Coxcie’, Bulletin de la Société Royale d’archéologie de Bruxelles 1 (1938) p. 5–17
L. Lebeer, 'Het cultuurleven te Mechelen. I. De beeldende kunsten. 3. De graveerkunst te Mechelen', in: R. Foncke et al. (eds.), Mechelen de Heerlijke, Mechelen 1938-1947, p. 453-478
G.W. Digby, 'Tapestries from the Polish State Collections', The Connoisseur 138 (August 1956), p. 3-9
L. Beauvois-Faure, 'Gehistoriseerde en groenwerktapijten uit de 17de eeuw in de verzameling van de kathedraal te Burgos', in: Het herfsttij van de Vlaamse tapijtkunst/La tapisserie flamande au XVIIme et XVIIIme siècles. Internationaal colloquium 8-10 october 1959, Brussels 1959, p. 101-108
J. Ollero Butler, 'Miguel Coxcie y su obra en España', Archivo Español de Arte 48 (1975), p. 165-198
J. Vervaet, 'Mannerism and the Italian influence in sixteenth-century Antwerp', Apollo (1977), p. 168-175 (a.o. Michiel Coxie I)
M. Díaz Padrón, 'Una tabla desconocida de Michel Coxcie en la Universidad Complutense: "El camino del Calvario"', Boletín de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando 1986, no. 63, p. 99-104
B.C. van den Boogert, 'Habsburgs imperialisme en de verspreiding van renaissance-vormen in de Nederlanden: de vensters van Michiel Coxcie in de Sint-Goedele te Brussel', Oud Holland 106 (1992), p. 57-79
K.T. Johns, 'Coxcie in Brussels', Handelingen van de Koninklijke Kring voor Oudheidkunde, Letteren en Kunst van Mechelen 96 (1992), p. 247-255
R. de Smedt (ed.), 'Michel Coxcie, pictor regis (1499-1592)', Handelingen van de Koninklijke Kring voor Oudheidkunde, Letteren en Kunst van Mechelen 96 (1992), no. 2 (review in: Oud Holland 110, 1996, p. 47-51)
C. van de Velde, 'De Coxcies uit de Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk van Antwerpen', Handelingen van de Koninklijke Kring voor Oudheidkunde, Letteren en Kunst van Mechelen 96 (1992), p. 193-214
B.C. van den Boogert, 'De triomfen van de keizer. De verheerlijking van Karel V en de toepassing van antieke motieven in de Nederlandse kunst', in: B.C. van den Boogert, J. Kerkhoff et al., exh. cat. Maria van Hongarije. Koningin tussen keizers en kunstenaars, 1505-1558, Utrecht (Museum Catharijneconvent) / 's-Hertogenbosch (Noordbrabants Museum) 1993, p. 220-268 (a.o. Michiel Coxie)
B.C. van den Boogert, 'Macht en pracht. Het mecenaat van Maria van Hongarije', in: B.C. van den Boogert, J. Kerkhoff et al., exh. cat. Maria van Hongarije. Koningin tussen keizers en kunstenaars, 1505-1558, Utrecht (Museum Catharijneconvent) / 's-Hertogenbosch (Noordbrabants Museum) 1993, p. 269-351 (a.o. Michiel Coxie)
K.T. Johns, 'Peter Paul Rubens, Michael Coxcie und der Antwerpener Strumpfwirker-Altar', in: Die Malerei Antwerpens: Gattungen, Meister, Wirkungen: Studien zur flämischen Kunst des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. Internationales Kolloquium, Wenen 1993
H. Loinig, 'Zu Michiel Coxcies "Sippen- und Johannestafel" von 1540. Frühe Paradigmen des Romanismus in den Niederlanden', Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 48 (1995), p. 113-128 (fig. on p. 275-276)
R. Vervoort, 'Die verschollen geglaubten Tapisserien von Herzog Chirstoph van Württenberg (+ 1568)', Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien 2 (= 94 in the old series) (2001), p. 85-103
N.F. Grazzini, 'Renaissance tapestry and Italian patronage', in: K. Brosens (ed.), Flemish tapestry in European and American collections. Studies in honour of Guy Delmarcel, Turnhout 2003, p. 49–58
M. Hennel-Bernasikowa, 'L'histoire des tapisseries de Sigismond-Auguste de 1795 à 1939', in: Liber Memorialis Erik Duverger, Wetteren 2006, p. 53-73
G. van Hemeldonck, Kunst en kunstenaars (typescript 2007), Felix Archive, Antwerp, no. S-216 (online)
E. Hartkamp-Jonxis, 'Een geschilderd patroon voor een wandtapijt met de landing van Scipio op de kust van Afrika uit het midden van de 16de eeuw', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 56 (2008), p. 82-101
R. De Smedt, 'La réceptionde Michel Coxcie en Espagne', Revue Belge d’archéologie et d’histoire de l’art 79 (2010), p. 71-83
R. De Smedt, 'Autopsie de Michiel Coxie', Revue Belge d’archéologie et d’histoire de l’art 80 (2011), p. 1-255
N. Peeters, 'Michiel Coxcie (1499-1592), The Laocoon, and the introduction of raccourci in the Southern Netherlands', in: R. Dekoninck (ed.), Relations artistiques entre Italie et anciens Pays-Bas XVIe-XVIIIe siècles/Artistieke relaties tussen Italië en de Nederlanden 16de-18de eeuw, Brussels/Rome 2012, p. 27-39
A. Bos, S. Forestier, A. Mathieu-Daudé, 'L'Adoration des Mages: une tapisserie de l'atelier de Frans Geubels redécouverte grâce à un procédé de restauration inédit', La revue des musées de France. Revue du Louvre 2012, no. 5, p. 39-48
D. Martens, I. Santa Clara, 'Exotisme flamand mitigé à Madère: les huit Coxcie de la cathédrale de Funchal', Handelingen Koninklijke Kring voor Oudheidkunde, Letteren en Kunst van Mechelen 116 (2012), p. 71-113
'Michiel Coxcie (1499-1592). De Vlaamse Rafaël', Openbaar Kunstbezit Vlaanderen 51 (2013), no. 4: special volume
R. Suykerbuyck, 'Coxcie's copies of old masters: an addition and an analysis', Simiolus 37 (2013-2014), p. 5-24
R. Suykerbuyck, 'Michiel Coxcie and the Story of Samson Tapestry Series', Master Drawings 52 (2014), p. 371-386
E. Wouk, review of exh. and cat. Louvain 2013, Print Quarterly 31 (2014), p. 462-465
D. van der Linden, 'Coping with crisis. Career strategies of Antwerp painters after 1585', De Zeventiende Eeuw31 (2015), p. 18-54, p. 44

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