Early Netherlandish Paintings : : Rediscovery, Reception and Research / / Bernard Ridderbos, Henk Veen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Ridderbos, Bernard,; Veen, Henk,
• MitwirkendeR: Borchert, Till-Holger,; Dijkstra, Jeltje,; Harbison, Craig,; Krul, Wessel,; Martens, Maximiliaan P. J.,; Pauwels, Henri,; Ridderbos, Bernhard,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (481 p.) :; Richly colour black and white illustrated

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- General Introduction -- Part one -- Chapter 1. Objects and Questions -- Part two -- Chapter 2. Collecting Early Netherlandish Paintings in Europe and the United States -- Chapter 3. From Waagen to Friedländer -- Chapter 4. Realism, Renaissance and Nationalism -- Part three -- Chapter 5. Technical Examination -- Chapter 6. The Corpus of Fifteenth-Century Painting in the Southern Netherlands and the Principality of Liège -- Chapter 7. Patronage -- Chapter 8. Iconography and Iconology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index