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Ces Moeurs et fachons de faire de Turcz (Customs and Fashions of the Turks)
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Ces Moeurs et fachons de faire de Turcz (Customs and Fashions of the Turks)

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)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Pieter Coecke van Aelst

1502–1531Southern Netherlands

Diverse artist most famous for his publishing activity. The translation of Sebastiano Serlio that he issued from 1539 played a large role in spreading Renaissance ideas in the Netherlands. His artwork is heavily influenced by Italian art. Pieter Coecke's second wife, Mayken Verhulst and several of his sons from his first and second marriages, including Pieter II and Paul, continued his workshop in Brussels after his death. Van Mander stated that Coecke was the teacher of his son-in-law, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, but there is no influence of Coecke in Bruegel's work.