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
14th and 15th Centuries
‘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)
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
La Peinture et le Laboratoire: Procédés. Méthodologie. Applications
This volume brings together the papers presented at the thirteenth colloquium, held at Bruges in September of 1999, dedicated to the investigation of underdrawings and technology in paintings. Edited [...] Read More
The Donor’s Image: Gerard Loyet and the Votive Portraits of Charles the Bold
An appealing volume for the generalist and specialist alike, The Donor’s Image provides an analysis of the history, context, and iconography of one of the world’s most precious and fascinating [...] Read More
Painting and Patronage in Cologne 1300-1500
This book – the first such study in English–– traces the development of later medieval painting in Cologne over two centuries, beginning with the emergence of the agitated ‘Zackenstil’ in the wall [...] Read More
Illiterati et uxorati. Manuscripts and their Makers: Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris 1200-1500
The Latin that hovers above the more sober "Manuscripts and their Makers," on the title page of Richard and Mary Rouse’s magisterial two-volume work, is Francis Bacon’s dismissive description of the [...] Read More