Michiel Coxie (Coxie also spelled van Coxcie or de Coxien) was a Flemish painter who studied under Bernard van Orley, who probably induced him to visit the Italian peninsula.
Michiel Coxie studied in his early years in Rome (1532), where 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' are favorable specimens of his skill. He belonged to the inner circle of Michelangelo and not only learned the style of the renaissance master, he also studied the philosophy and art theory of the antiquity and Roman renaissance.
