Medieval Art in the Northern Netherlands before Van Eyck. New Facts and Features—Review by Anne-Maria J. van Egmond and Claudine A. Chavannes-Mazel (original) (raw)

Medieval Art in the Northern Netherlands before Van Eyck, New Facts and Features has its genesis in the conference ‘75 Years after Hoogewerff: an Inventory of Research on Medieval Art in the Northern Netherlands until 1420’ held in Amsterdam in 2012. The ‘primary aim (of the conference, J.R.D.) was to establish what changes have occurred in the last 75 years with regards to methodology, techniques and significant new areas of historical enquiry’. The conference ‘attempted to summarize the scientific progress made in the last decades’ since the publication of De Noord-Nederlandsche Schilderkunst and ‘point out some of the gaps left in Hoogewerff’s account’. As a result, the volume carefully balances historiographic analysis of Hoogewerff’s contributions with changes that have occurred over the last three-quarters of a century. It also provides case studies inspired by the subjects covered in his magnum opus.