THE CHARTERHOUSE OF BRUGES

This book celebrates the reunion, for the first time in twenty-four years and only the second time in their history, of two masterpi eces of early Netherlandish painting commissioned by the Carthusian monk Jan Vos during his tenure as prior of the Charterhouse of B ruges in the 1440s: the Frick Collection's Virgin and Child with St. Barbara, St. Elizabeth, and Jan Vos (commissioned from Jan van Eyck and completed by his workshop) and the Gem ldegalerie's Virgin and Child with St. Barbara and Jan Vos (painted by Petrus Christ us). Thes...[Read more]