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de vente Description : 400 pages - in English - around 400 mostly color illustrations - the first comprehensive monograph and catalogue raisonné since 1938 of the life and art of the innovative 15th Century Flemish painter Dieric Bouts (1410/20-1475) whose pious, dreamlike and emotional paintings reflected a synthesis of Van Eyck's spatial qualities and Van Der Weyden's plastic strength - essays on a dynasty of painters, the mysterious Haarlem School of painting, Louvain days, Bouts' iconography, technique, portraits, Madonnas, a hypothetical altarpiece, the Bouts workshop and Bouts' artistic heritage - catalogue: autograph works, the Bouts workshop and problematic attributions - technical appendix: Peter Klein on the dendrochronological analysis of panels attributed to Bouts, and, infra-red reflectograms and x-radiographs - biblio., showings, topographical index to works by Bouts and his circle and index of names. N° de réf. du libraire 003715 - Euro 250,00.- xx language : english text