Early Netherlandish Painting (Friedländer)
Early Netherlandish Painting (German: Die altniederländische Malerei) is a pioneering 14-volume series of illustrated books by the German art historian Max Jakob Friedländer (1867–1958). The first volume was published in 1924, and the series ran until 1937. It was the first comprehensive modern art-historical survey of Early Netherlandish painting,[1] a term often used in art history to describe artists of the Low Countries during the 15th- and 16th-century Northern Renaissance.
Friedländer developed an interest in northern art of the period while director of the
The book focuses on establishing biographical details for the painters, attributing individual works, and detailing their major stylistic themes and techniques. The undertaking was extremely difficult, given the scant historical record of even the most significant artists.[3]
The series was a major influence on
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- McNamee, Maurice. Vested Angels: Eucharistic Allusions in Early Netherlandish Paintings. Peeters Publishers, 1998. ISBN 978-9042900073
- Silver, Larry. "The State of Research in Northern European Art of the Renaissance Era". The Art Bulletin, Volume 68, No. 4, 1986