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Early Netherlandish Painting National Gallery of Art

by John Oliver Hand, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (Author), Martha Wolff

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This catalogue of the early Netherlandish paintings in the National Gallery of Art inaugurates a projected series of more than two dozen volumes fully cataloguing the Gallery's holdings of paintings, sculpture, photographs, and decorative arts. This volume contains entries for paintings in the National Gallery that were produced in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by artists from the Netherlands. The entries are arranged alphabetically by artist; a short biography and bibliography for each artist is followed by individual entries on the paintings, each in order of acquisition. The authors address traditional questions of attribution and iconography; in addition, they examine the social, economic, and religious context in which the individual work of the art functioned. The volume is also probably the first museum catalogue to include the results of analysis by infrared reflectography and dendrochronological examination.… (more)
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This catalogue of the early Netherlandish paintings in the National Gallery of Art inaugurates a projected series of more than two dozen volumes fully cataloguing the Gallery's holdings of paintings, sculpture, photographs, and decorative arts. This volume contains entries for paintings in the National Gallery that were produced in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by artists from the Netherlands. The entries are arranged alphabetically by artist; a short biography and bibliography for each artist is followed by individual entries on the paintings, each in order of acquisition. The authors address traditional questions of attribution and iconography; in addition, they examine the social, economic, and religious context in which the individual work of the art functioned. The volume is also probably the first museum catalogue to include the results of analysis by infrared reflectography and dendrochronological examination.

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This volume contains entries for the collection of Netherlandish art from the 15th and 16th centuries at the National Gallery of Art. The small size of the Netherlands belied its cultural vitality, and the region produced a school of painting that was considered the equal of the Italian school. Early Netherlandish pictures have always been emulated, admired for their appeal to the eye and to the mind, and enthusiastically collected. Collecting of early Netherlandish painting in the United States, however, did not begin until the late 19th century, and the bulk of the Gallery’s collection of early Netherlandish painting was given by Andrew W. Mellon and Samuel H. Kress and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. Entries are given in alphabetical order by artist, and the catalog includes a list of changes in attribution and the results of examination using reflectography and dendochronology.
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