Author: Wilson, Jean C.
Title: Painting in Bruges at the close of the Middle Ages. Studies in society and visual culture.
Description: University Park, Pa., Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, [1998]. XVI,256 pp. 78 b./w. figs. Orig. ahrdcover (black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, d./j. Large 8vo. - Dust jacket with short tear (ca. 50 mm.).This book is the first to explore the origins and nature of the demand for painting in Bruges over the course of the fifteenth century and its subsequent effect on the community of painters and their workshop and marketing practices. The evolution of Bruges was fundamentally linked with commerce, and as a result of the city's thriving international trade and rising merchant class, it was to become one of the most affluent and cosmopolitan centers in late medieval Europe. However, only after the Duke of Burgundy moved his court to Bruges in the early decades of the fifteenth century would it begin to be a major center for the production of panel painting.

Keywords: Dutch Art Nederlandse kunst