The Torture of St George by Michiel Coxie, 1588, in Saint Rumbold’s Cathedral, Mechelen
The Torture of St George by Michiel Coxie, 1588, in Saint Rumbold’s Cathedral, Mechelen. The Torture of St George by Michiel Coxie, 1588, in Saint Rumbold’s Cathedral, Mechelen, via RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, Hague; with Engraving of a Vertical Impalement by Justus Lipsius, 1593; and detail from Nero’s Torches by Henryk Siemiradzki, 1876 Coxie also spelled Coxcie or Coxien, Latinised name Coxius (1499 - 3 March 1592) was a Flemish painter who studied under Bernard van Orley, who probably induced him to visit the Italian peninsula. Coxie was born in 1499 in Mechelen in what was then the Duchy of Brabant. At Rome in 1532 he painted the chapel of Cardinal Enckenvoirt in the church of Santa Maria dell'Anima; and Giorgio Vasari, who knew him, says with truth that he fairly acquired the manner of an Italian. But Coxie's principal occupation was designing for engravers; and the fable of Psyche in thirty-two sheets by Agostino Veneziano and the Master of the Die ...