Author: EYCK, JAN VAN. Meulemeester, Jean Luc.
Title: Jan van Eyck en Brugge.
Description: [Oostkamp], Stichting Kunstboek, [2019]. 320 pp. Num. ills (chiefly col.). Orig hardcover (pictorial boards). 4to. The oil painting The Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele by Jan van Eyck is without a doubt the showpiece of the collection of Flemish Primitives of the Bruges Groeninge Museum, it is an icon, a crowd puller and without a doubt one of the masterpieces of Southern Netherlandish painting in the fifteenth century. In light of the Van Eyck year 2020, art historian Jean Luc Meulemeester wrote the definitive book about the famous panel. This extensive book highlights the historical context in which the work was created and places it in an art historical tradition. In addition, the technical implementation, iconography and symbolism of the work are discussed in detail and links are made to examples, but also places and interiors, from which Jan van Eyck was most likely inspired.

Keywords: Dutch Art Nederlandse kunst