COLIN, ALEXANDRE ( 6 6 Fl 11 1 ,i52 I 2 „ _ _em_s__ scu_ptor, was born at Malines. In 1563 he went, at the invitation of the Emperor Ferdinand I., to Innsbruck, to work on the magnificent monument which was being erected to Maximilian I. in the nave of the Franciscan church. Of the 24 marble alti-rilievi, repre senting the emperor's principal acts and victories, which adorn the sides of this tomb, 20 were executed by Colin, apparently in three years.
Colin, who was sculptor in ordinary both to the emperor and to his son, the Archduke Ferdinand of Tirol, did a great deal of work for his patrons at Innsbruck and in its neighbourhood, in cluding the sepulchres of the archduke and his first wife, Philip pine Welser, both in the same church as the Maximilian monu ment, and of Bishop Jean Nas.