From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hardbound
1998 · New York
by Ainsworth, Maryan W. and Keith Christiansen (editors)
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998. Hardbound. VG-/VG- light soiling/foxing to some page edges, light wear to spine, edges, corners of book and dust jacket.. Blue cloth with color pictorial dustjacket. 452 pp.; Profusely illustrated with color and bw plates and figures. Issued in conjunction with a 1998-1999 exhibition of these paintings. The annotated and illustrated catalogue presents 102 specific pieces. Includes artist bios and substantial bibliography. Contents as follows: Early Netherlandish painting : shifting perspectives / Julien Chapuis -- The business of art : patrons, clients, and art markets / Maryan W. Ainsworth -- The view from Italy / Keith Christiansen -- How the pictures got here / Everett Fahy -- Religious painting from about 1420 to 1500 : in the eye of the beholder / Maryan W. Ainsworth -- Portraiture : a meeting of the sacred and secular worlds / Maryan W. Ainsworth -- Workshop practice in early Netherlandish painting : an inside view / Maryan W. Ainsworth -- Gerard David : purity of vision in an age of transition / Maryan W. Ainsworth -- Religious painting from 1500 to 1550 : continuity and innovation on the eve of the iconoclasm / Maryan w. Ainswroth -- Bruegel, the land, and the peasants / Nadine M. Orenstein. (Inventory #: 117664.2)