The Social Life of Early Netherlandish Painting Ghent University
This project aims to identify the social networks in which Early Netherlandish Painting originated and circulated in c. 1400-1550. Scholars all agree that the frequent commissioning and purchase of paintings by well-to-do individuals was a distinctive characteristic of Early Netherlandish Painting, but there is no consensus on the position of those consumers in relation to factors such as urbanization, elite formation, or state building. ...