There are good reasons for our lack of Knowledge. At that time, artists passed their knowledge only to their own pupils. If they did not pr...

Never before had, there been paintings of comparable brilliance. The Flemish masters used their colors in the most subtle ways to achieve p...

It was long asserted that Van Eyck invented painting in oils. Art historians no longer consider this to be the case, but, together with his...

During the first half of the 15 th century, Flanders was the setting for a revolution in the history of painting. It was at this time that...