Wenceslas Cobergher

1560 – 1634

Wenceslas Cobergher (also Wenzel Koeberger), Flemish painter, architect and engineer. He was a leader in the development of the Flemish Baroque style of architecture, based on the early Italian Baroque buildings of the Roman school. Cobergher received his education as a painter in the workshop of Marten de Vos and by studying works of art in Paris, Rome, and Naples (1583-1604). From 1605 until his death, he was painter, architect, and engineer to the governors of the Spanish Netherlands. He painted altarpieces for churches in Italy and in Flanders, but his pictures are far less important than his few surviving buildings. Of these the most famous are St. Augustin in Antwerp (begun 1615) and the Basilica of Our Lady of Scherpenheuvel (1609), which show the influence of the design of St. Peter's in Rome. He also wrote on archaeology.

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