Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 104. (Budapest, 2006)

TERÉZ GERSZI: Pieter Coecke Van Aelst and Andrea Mantegna

I'll UK COECKE VAN AFI ST. SAINT PAUL PREACHING TO THE WOMEN IN PHILIPPE MUNICH. STAATLICHE GRAPHISCHE SAMMLUNG fig. 4)" or the Saint Paul before Agrippa (Vienna, Albertina, fig. 5).

8 On the Munich sheet, the female figure standing in front of the tree to the left and glancing slightly backwards reminds of the Budapest youth, not only in her movement, but also in her oval face and the proportions of her figure. The head of Saint Paul seen in half-profile and preaching in a seated position is repeated with the elderly servant of the Budapest sheet, while the pointing hand of the saint is identical with that of the young servant. In his multi-figured compositions, Coecke used uniform, schematic facial types, developed under the influence of his supposed master, Barend van Orley; consequently, the same, finely-shaped, oval-faced female figures recur in the drawing of Saint Paul before Agrippa and the sheet representing the saint's preaching. Here the young men

—especially the standing youth holding a fasces

—appear like twins of the Budapest stepping figure. Similarly to the mentioned sheets, which were executed as modelli to two compositions of a series of nine tapestries, the Budapest drawing is also characterised by clear, unbroken, fine outlines and three-toned, effortless wash emphasising plasticity. In the figurai types, their sculptural handling and their drawing style, the Budapest sheet is closely related to the series of woodcuts made after Coecke's drawings entitled The Morals and Customs of the Turks'' The artist made the preliminary drawings for this series during his