14th and 15th Centuries

“Moult bons et notables”. L’enluminure tournaisienne à l’époque de Robert Campin (1380-1430) (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, vol. 17, Low Countries Series, 12)

By Dominique Vanwijnsberghe

Leuven: Peeters, 2007. 414 pp, 447 illus. (color and b&w). ISBN 978-90-429-1758-3

Review published November 2009

In taking on the thorniest and most interesting questions associated with early Netherlandish art, there is the dramatic approach that aims to resolve an issue or serve as the final word, much like a [...] Read More

The Master of Flémalle and Rogier van der Weyden

By Stephan Kemperdick and Jochen Sander (eds.)

With essays by Bastian Eclercy, Stephan Kemperdick, Peter Klein, Antje-Fee Köllermann, and Jochen Sander. Cat. exh. Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, November 21, 2008 – February 22, 2009; Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin, March 20 – June 21, 2009. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2009. 404 pp, 203 illus. ISBN 978-3-7757-2259-9 (English); 978-3-7757-2258-2 (German)

Review published November 2009

Who doesn't love a great mystery? More important, who doesn't love trying to solve one? This is precisely what Stephan Kemperdick and Jochen Sander have set out to do in the exhibition "Der Meister [...] Read More

Making and Marketing: Studies of the Painting Process in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Workshops

By Molly Faries (ed.), with contributions by Maryan Ainsworth, Molly Faries, Maria Galassi, Liesbeth M. Helmus, Linda Jansen, Micha Leeflang, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Daantnje Meuwissen, Natasja Peeters, Ron Spronk, Anne H. van Buren, Catharina van Daalen, Roger van Schoute, Hélène Verougstraete, and Margreet Wolters

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2006. 279 pp, 162 illus., 40 color plates. ISBN 2-503-51605-X

Review published November 2008

Few individuals have made as many, or as significant, contributions to the field of “technical art history” than Molly Faries. Through her solo research studies, her collaborative partnerships with [...] Read More

Early Engravers and their Public. The Master of the Berlin Passion and Manuscripts from Convents in the Rhine-Maas Region, ca. 1450-1500

By Ursula Weekes

Turnhout: Brepols; London: Harvey Miller, 2004. 384 pp, ISBN 1-872501-52-4

Review published April 2008

Ursula Weekes’s book on early Northern engravings focuses on the ambit of a particular printmaker, the Master of the Berlin Passion. This fine study does not attempt to treat all prints by the Master [...] Read More

Das Geheimnis des Jan van Eyck, Die frühen niederländischen Zeichnungen und Gemälde in Dresden

By Thomas Ketelsen and Uta Neidhardt, with the collaboration of Konstanze Krüger and Christien Melzer

With contributions by Till-Holger Borchert, Bodo Brinkmann, Georg Dietz, Thera Folmer-von Oven, Oliver Hahn, Annette Hojer, Christine Kitzlinger, Konstanze Krüger, Christien Melzer, Silke Merchel, Erwin Pokorny, Ina Reiche, Christoph Schölzel, Patrick Seurinck and Olaf Simon. [Cat. exh. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, August 13 – October 31, 2005.] Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005. 264 pp, ISBN 3-422-06566-0

Review published November 2007

Inspired by the 150-year anniversary of Gottfried Semper’s museum building on the Zwinger in Dresden, which was originally intended to house both drawings and paintings, this exhibition and catalogue [...] Read More

The Flemish Primitives, IV: Masters with Provisional Names

By Pascale Syfer-d’Olne, Roel Slachmuylders, Anne Dubois, Bart Fransen and Famke Peters

(Catalogue of Early Netherlandish Painting in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels). Turnhout: Brepols, 2006. 458 pp, 73 color plates, 291 b&w illus. ISBN 2-503-51743-9

Review published November 2007

This is the fourth in a projected series of five catalogues on the Belgian Royal Museums’ collection of early Netherlandish painting. It follows volumes on The Master of Flémalle and Rogier van der [...] Read More

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14th and 15th Centuries