COECKE VAN AELST, Pieter Oil on panel, 98 x 84 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid Holy Trinity dg Flemish Northern Renaissance Painter, ca.1502-1550
South Netherlandish painter, architect, and linguist. After extensive travels he settled in Antwerp, where he published (1539) a Flemish translation of Vitru-vius's De Architectura and (1539?C53) Serlio's multi-volume treatise into Flemish, French, and High German.