Campîn in Context
Subtitle: Peinture et société dans la vallée de l'Escaut à l'époque de Robert Campin
Publisher: Presses universitaires de Valenciennes; Association des Guides de Tournai
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Valenciennes; Tournai
Number of pages: 345
Description: The international colloquium Campin in Context sought to re-examine the personality of the celebrated Tournai painter Robert Campin († 1445). This topic, which has continually fascinated art historians since the 1930s, was addressed from a broad perspective. In addition to traditional stylistic approaches, the papers delivered at the colloquium took into account the political, socio-economic and cultural relationships between the principal cities of the Scheldt river valley, both in Belgium and in Northern France (Ghent, Oudenaarde, Tournai, Valenciennes).
The close links shared by these Scheldt valley cities in the early fifteenth century contributed to the formation of an artistic climate of remarkable originality. Indeed, the majority of the colloquium papers clearly demonstrated that the pictorial production associated with the name of Robert Campin cannot have been limited to the city of Tournai alone. It is now accepted that it must have spread amongst other centres along the important axis of communication between Flanders and Hainaut that was the Scheldt river.
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