L'art Des Anciens Pays-Bas De Van Eyck À Bruegel

Between the end of the fourteenth and the middle of the sixteenth century, the Netherlands became one of the main artistic scenes in the Western world. The art of the former Netherlands gradually established itself on the international scene, inventing new, profoundly modern ways of thinking about art and its relationship to the world, without abandoning the close links with the forms invented in the late Middle Ages.

From the accession of Philip II the Bold (1384) to the split of the Netherlands in 1581, this book deals with the great masters of painting (Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling, Jan Gossaert, Joachim Patinir, Jan van Scorel, Pieter Bruegel I), as well as illumination, drawing, engraving, architecture, sculpture and tapestry - all fields in which Dutch artists excelled during this period.