Early Netherlandish painting, its origins and character.
Series: Icon editions
Publisher: Harper and Row; Harper & Row
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Description: "The book had a wide impact on studies of Renaissance art and Early Netherlandish painting in particular, but also studies in iconography, art history, and intellectual history in general. The book is particularly well-known for its iconographic treatment of Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait as a kind of marriage contract. The book remains influential despite its reliance on black-and-white reproductions of paintings, which led to some errors of analysis."--The books that shaped art history (p. 95).
Notes: The Charles Eliot Norton lectures 1947-1948.