VAN DER ELST (J.). - Lot 276

VAN DER ELST (J.). Paris, La Palme. A comprehensive work devoted to the golden age of Flemish painting in the 15th and 16th centuries. The author presents the great masters of the former Southern Netherlands—Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Memling, Quentin Metsys, Gérard David, and Pieter Bruegel—highlighting the extraordinary technical and spiritual refinement of this artistic school. Richly illustrated with black-and-white and color reproductions, the book offers an accessible yet scholarly overview of a pivotal period in the history of European art, marked by the development of pictorial realism and the flourishing of religious and bourgeois painting. Description: Large quarto, illustrated cloth-bound. Numerous inset reproductions. Interior in good condition. Some foxing and signs of wear on the binding.