Early Netherlandish paintings : rediscovery reception and research Objects and Questions (Bernhard Ridderbos) Collecting Early Netherlandish Paintings in Europe and the United States (Till Holger Borchert) From Waagen to Friedländer (Bernhard Ridderbos) Realism Renaissance and Nationalism (Wessel Krul) Technical Examination (Jeltje Dijkstra) The Corpus of Fifteenth Century Painting in the Southern Netherlands and the Principality of Liège (Henri Pauwels) Patronage (Maximiliaan P.J. Martens) Iconography and Iconology (Craig Harbison) An illustrated scholarly analysis of the art and the cultural interpretations of the Flemish Primitives; 1400 1499