Apprenticeship
It is sometimes presumed that Bernard van Orley completed his art education in Rome in the school of Raphael, however there are no reliable sources to prove this. At that time, there were only a few painters with some renown in Brussels, such as Van Laethem and painters from the Coninxloo family. It is therefore much more likely that he was initially taught in the workshop of his father, an obscure painter whose name appears as "master" in the "Liggere" (registers) of the Guild of St. Luke of Antwerp and who had several pupils.
Bernard van Orley got his knowledge of the Renaissance style from engravings and a number tapestry cartoons by Raphael for the "Acts of the Apostles", that were present in Brussels between 1516 and 1520. They were to be woven into tapestries for pope Leo X by Pieter van Aalst.
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