Ces Moeurs et fachons de faire de Turcz (Customs and Fashions of the Turks)
16th century
Medium
Woodcuts in a frieze of ten blocks printed on ten sheets
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 in. × 14 ft. 11 7/16 in. (35.5 × 455.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928
Accession Number
28.85.1-.7a, b
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Art Historical Context
Step into the vibrant world of 16th Europe with *Ces Moeurs et fach de faire de TurczCustoms and Fashions the Turks)*, a monumental frieze of woodcuts by Flemish artist Pieter Coecke vanelst, with contributions from Mayken Verhul. Created in the mid-1500s, this panoramic stretches an impressive 14 feet 11 inches across ten sheets, each block meticulously carved to capture the exotic allure of Ottoman life. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, it offers a rare glimpse into a time when the East captivated Western imaginations. Coecke van Aelst drew from his...
About the Artist
Pieter Coecke van Aelst|Mayken Verhulst
Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502–1550) was a leading Flemish artist of the Renaissance, renowned for his multifaceted talents as a painter, sculptor, architect, and designer of tapestries, stained glass, woodcuts, and metalwork. Born in Aalst, in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium), he likely studied under Bernaert van Orley, a prominent Antwerp painter, before becoming a master in the city...