Early Netherlandish Paintings: Rediscovery, Reception and Research

by Henk Th. Van Veen, Bernhard Ridderbos (Editor)

The so-called Flemish Primitives, a group of fifteenth-century painters from the southern Netherlands, acquired their name in the nineteenth century. Among them were world-famous artists such as Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling, the brothers Van Eyck, and Huge van der Goes. Their masterpieces, oil paintings minutely detailed in luminous color, are a high point of Western European art, which, together with the Italian Renaissance paintings, laid the foundations for modern art. This book focuses on the artistic, religious, and social significance of their art and its iconographic interpretations, as well as how the paintings themselves were collected, evaluated, and studied over the centuries.

Genres: Art

481 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2005

Reviews

[Alex Knipping · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dit boek heb ik in stukjes en beetjes gelezen. Voor een geïnteresseerde leek is het hier en daar erg informatief en verhelderend en op een aantal andere punten erg academisch. Waarschijnlijk is het toch vooral geschreven voor degenen die van de middeleeuwse schilderkunst in de Lage Landen hun studie hebben gemaakt.