15th-Century Netherlandish Schools; Author: Campbell, Lorne; Hardcover

Author: Campbell, Lorne
Hardcover; Illustrated
Published: November 1998
Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300077017

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 Jan van Eyck's famous Arnolfini portrait. This fully illustrated volume reproduces each of the National Gallon., early Netherlandish paintings in full color, accompanied by numerous details, comparative illustrations, and technical photographs.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. Campbell's analysis of the artists' techniques and working practices marks a