14th and 15th Centuries

Art in the Making: Underdrawings in Renaissance Paintings

By David Bomford, ed.

With contributions by Rachel Billinge, Lorne Campbell, Jill Dunkerton, Susan Foister, Jo Kirby, Carol Plazzotta, Ashok Roy, and Marika Spring. [Cat. exh. The National Gallery, London, October 30, 2002 - February 16, 2003.] London: The National Gallery, 2002. 192 pp, 305 illus., many in color, ISBN 1-85709-987-7

Review published April 2003

Underdrawings in Renaissance Paintings marks the fourth entry in the National Gallery's popular Art in the Making series. A joint project of the National Gallery's Scientific, Conservation, and [...] Read More

The Flemish Primitives, III: The Hieronymus Bosch, Albrecht Bouts, Gerard David, Colijn de Coter and Goossen van der Weyden Groups, Catalogue of Early Netherlandish Painting in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

By Cyriel Stroo, Pascale Syfer-d'Olne, Anne Dubois, Roel Slachmuylders, and Nathalie Toussaint

Brussels: Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique; Turnhout: Brepols 2001. 392 pp., 45 color plates, 221 b&w illus. ISBN 2-503-51229-1

Review published April 2003

This is the third in a projected series of five catalogues on the Royal Museums' collection of early Netherlandish painting. It follows Cyriel Stroo and Pascale Syfer-d'Olne's volume o n The Master of [...] Read More

De celebratie van de macht: Presentatieminiaturen en aanverwante voorstellingen in handschriften van Filips de Goede (1419-1467) en Karel de Stoute (1467-1477)

By Cyriel Stroo

Brussels: Paleis der Academiën, 2002. 388 pp, 143 pp. of plates. ISBN 90-6569-911-2

Review published April 2003

Cyriel Stoo's book, De celebratie van de macht, uses the presentation scenes in Burgundian manuscripts made for Philip the Good and his son Charles the Bold as a starting point, leading the reader [...] Read More

Corpus de la peinture des anciens Pays-Bas méridionaux et de la principauté de Liège au quinzième siècle, 19: Musée du Louvre Paris III

By Philippe Lorentz and Micheline Comblen-Sonkes

With the collaboration of the Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique et du Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des musées de France. 2 vols. Brussels: Centre International d'Études de la Peinture Médievale des Bassins de L'Escaut et de la Meuse, 2001. 372 pp, 16 color and 224 b&w plates, ISBN 2-87033-010-3 (Belgium), ISBN 2-7118-4320-3 (France)

Review published November 2002

One of the most ambitious and time consuming projects in the field of Early Netherlandish paintings is the publication of a volume of the 'Primitifs flamands Corpus,' which aims to present and [...] Read More

The Age of Van Eyck 1430-1530. The Mediterranean World and Early Netherlandish Painting

By Till-Holger Borchert, ed.

Ghent-Amsterdam: Ludion, 2002. 280 pp, 252 illus., most in color, and 131 small catalogue illus., all in color. ISBN 90-5544-396-4. Distributed by Thames & Hudson

Review published November 2002

The exhibition 'Jan van Eyck, Early Netherlandish Painting and the European South, 1430-1530,' held at the Groeningemuseum in Bruges from March 15 until June 2002, celebrated 'Bruges 2002 - Cultural [...] Read More

‘De Fin or et d’azur’: Les commanditaires de livres et le métier de l’enluminure à Tournai à la fin du Moyen Âge (XIVe-XVe siècles), (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 10: Low Countries Series, 7)

By Dominique Vanwijnsberghe

Louvain: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2001. LXVIII, 466 pp, 127 plates, ISBN 2-87723-506-8; 90-429-0883-1

Review published November 2002

Poor Tournai! A decade ago Albert Châtelet demonstrated that Van der Weyden's Seven Sacraments Altar, long regarded as one of the city's most important fifteenth-century works, had actually been [...] Read More

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14th and 15th Centuries