Early Netherlandish Painting

This catalogue of early Netherlandish paintings in the National Gallery of Art inaugurates a projected series of more than two dozen volumes fully cataloging the Gallery's holdings of paintings, sculpture, photographs, and decorative arts. The volume contains entries for paintings in theNational Gallery that were produced in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by artists from the Netherlands. The entries are arranged alphabetically by artist. A short biography and bibliography for each artist is followed by individual entries on the paintings, each in order of acquisition. Theauthors address traditional questions of attribution and iconography. In addition, they examine the social, economic, and religious context in which the individual work of art functioned. The volume is also probably the first museum catalogue to include the results of examination by infraredreflectography and dendrochronological analysis.