ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS FROM BELGIUM AND THE NETHERLANDS

During the Middle Ages the geographical region occupied today by Belgium and the Netherlands flourished economically and artisticall y. While widely known as the era of Jan van Eyck, the great painter in oil on panel, the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries also witn essed one of the greatest flowering of the art of illumination anywhere in Europe. The region's colorful, naturalistically painted b ooks were eagerly sought after across the continent. While widely known as the era of Jan van Eyck, the great painter in oil on panel, the fi...[Read more]