1000 Masterworks - Early Netherlandish Painting

Comprehensively illustrated and compellingly presented – the well-known authors of five short art surveys provide a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting.
As early as the mid-1400s, painters from the Netherlands were famed for their landscapes, portraits and altarpieces, which displayed unprecedented naturalism, a breathtaking sense of spatiality, psychological intensity and detailed representation of fabrics.
Presented Masterworks: Hugo van der Goes: Adoration of the magi (c. 1470); Geertgen tot Sint-Jans: John the baptist in the wilderness (c. 1490); Hans Memling: St. John Altarpiece (before 1494); Joachim Patinir: Baptism of Christ (1515- 1520); Rogier van der Weyden: Portrait of a young woman (c. 1455)