The Fifteenth Century Netherlandish Paintings

    This fully illustrated volume reproduces each of the National Gallery early Netherlandish paintings in full color, accompanied by numerous details, comparative illustrations, and technical photographs.

        The London National Gallery's collection of fifteenth-century Netherlandish pictures—one of the largest and most important in the world—contains more than fifty paintings, including works by van Eyck (such as the famous double portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife), Campin, van der Weyden, Petrus Christus, Bouts, Marmion, Justus of Ghent, Memling and David.

        Art historian Lorne Campbell assembles highly sophisticated scientific and historical evidence to reconstruct in detail how these painters lived and worked, organized their studios, gathered and employed reference materials, used pigments and media, and marketed their pictures.

    Detailed entries for each work cover the authorship, histories and iconographies of the paintings, the patrons who commissioned them, and, above all, the painters' techniques and working practices.

      This marks a major advance in current understanding and appreciation of the extraordinary achievements of the early Netherlandish painters.

        About the Author:
Lorne Campbell is research curator at the National Gallery, London.