The Shadow of the Guild and the Light of Antwerp In the bustling workshops of Antwerp, a young man known to history as Colyn van Nieucasteel began his apprenticeship under the watchful eye of Pieter Coecke van Aelst. This was a time of profound transformation, where the rigid lines of the past were softening into something more human and psychologically complex. By 1539, the archives of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke recorded his prese…