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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. Year 1927. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> On the occasion of this renewal of interest it seemed likely that a few notes devoted to the chief artists who have built up the greatness of the School since the end of the 14th century and to their principal works would be welcomed by such of the visitors to the Exhibition as had retained a lively memory of the masterpieces from Europe and America which were collected for a short time in London. The history of Flemish painting at any rate that of its origins and of the 15th and 16th century masters needs constant re-writing. Since the first discoveries the first assertions and hypotheses notably since the publication of Mr. W. H. James Weale a goodly number of authentications have been made; many reconciliations have been attempted and many attributions changed. When Fierens-Gevaert published his “Primitifs Flamands” between 1907 and 1911 he made from the works of serious critics of the time a general r?sum? of the questions at issue in the light of the most recent knowledge. Thanks to the various exhibitions which have been held following the Exhibition of Flemish Primitives at Bruges in 1902 (an exhibition due entirely to the initiative of Baron Henry Kervyn de Lettenhove) many new certitudes have been put on record. If Fierens-Gevaert had not been removed by premature death he would have had to re-write most of his chapters. MM. Friedl?nder Giusti Henry Hymans Hulin de Loo Ed. Michel and their fellow-workers have also frequently modified various opinions. The rash assertions of the late A. J. Wauters have mostly been discredited. The learned and the critics have undoubtedly made fresh conquests. dge has Knowledge progressed several stages but the march has been like that of the pilgrims of Echernach whose forward steps were all but cancelled by their other steps in the reverse direction. (MP)