PIETER COECKE VAN AELST (cerchia/seguace di)

(Aalst, 1502 - Brussels, 1550) Adoration of the Magi Oil on panel, 76X101.5 cm The triptych is recognized to the hand of a painter belonging to the circle Pieter Coecke van Aelst or a direct follower of his, and the composition finds comparison with the triptych in the Mainz E Weinmuller collection (See https://rkd.nl/imageslite/385389 ; https://rkd.nl/imageslite/3095198). According to Karel van Mander, Coecke was a pupil of Bernard van Orley and Jan van Dornicke, becoming a master in 1527, giving rise to a flourishing workshop with countless pupils and collaborators devoted to the execution of works on panel paintings destined for all of Europe and models for tapestries commissioned by the most important patrons of the time, such as Henry VIII, Francis I of France, the Habsburgs and the Medicis. For this reason, the paintings attributed to Coecke vary widely in style and quality, depending on whether or not the intervention of the atelier was preponderant or by independent execution by pupils perpetuating the manner. Reference bibliography: G. Marlier, Pierre Coeck d'Alost and the renaissance flamande. Brüssel 1966, ad vocem A. Born, Essai d'analyse critique du maniérisme anversois de Max Jacob Friedländer suivi d'une révision du groupe des oeuvres du Maître de 1518, ongepubliceerde dissertatie Universiteit Gent, 2010, ad vocem