Albert Châtelet’s handsome, slip-cased treatment of one of the richest eras of French manuscript painting, the several decades around 1400 that included the Très riches Heures, is divided neatly into [...] Read More
14th and 15th Centuries
Four Books on Rogier van der Weyden
Dirk De Vos, Rogier van der Weyden. The Complete Works.Antwerp:Ê Mercatorfonds; New York: Abrams, 1999. 445 pp, 500 illus., 350 in col. ISBN 0-8109-6390-6. Albert Châtelet, Rogier van der Weyden [...] Read More
Leven na de dood. Gedenken in de late Middeleeuwen
In 1994, Truus van Bueren started an investigation into 'Care for the here and the hereafter: Commemorative representations in the (arch)bishopric of Utrecht in the late Middle Ages'. The exhibition [...] Read More
Two Surveys of Early Netherlandish Painting
From van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Edited by Maryan W. Ainsworth and Keith Christiansen, with contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Julien [...] Read More
Early Netherlandish Carved Altarpieces, 1380-1550: Medieval Tastes and Mass Marketing
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, large-scale, lavishly carved wooden altarpieces achieved great popularity in the South Netherlands. Over 350 of these splendid works survive, yet until [...] Read More