The term Flamish art, as the name suggests, refers to the artworks specially painting, created in the country of Flanders, and its neighboring areas of the low countries, including Northern France, most significantly during the 15th and the 16th century. Great advances in art occurred as Bruce became the center of European trade of luxurious items with demands emerging from all over the world commissioning paintings, especially alter pieces. When in 1523, Bruce's popularity declined and where it became the new artistic, political and commercial center. In painting, with a profound significance in a European context, Flamish art is characterized by its unique style, greatly derived from the adoption of oil painters' emirium, which immensely deferred from the styles being developed throughout the rest of Europe. Using a strong delineation of forms and greatly small sizes, Flamish painters developed a very intricate technique, a rigorous painting system based in successive layers, which created unprecedented, luminous and spatial effects. For your examples of these early Framish painters, include Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, Robert Campen and Roger van der Wyden. Although the adoption of oil painting was quite controversial at the time, it quickly began to spread and be applied specially by an orphan artist.