This volume presents the illustrations (plates) complementing the text of Volume One, and offers a comprehensive visual documentation of Early Netherlandish-painting produced in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries in the Low Countries. It includes hundreds of photographs and reproductions of panel paintings, altarpieces, triptychs, diptychs, and works by major masters such as Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden and Hans Memling, arranged to illustrate the chronological development, stylistic innovations (notably oil-painting on panel, illusionistic detail, and complex iconography) and the workshop- and patronage-context of the Burgundian/Habsburg Netherlands. The plates serve as a visual resource for the arguments in the Norton Lectures (1947-48) upon which the book is based, allowing students of art history to examine the formal, iconographic and technical dimensions of this core Northern Renaissance tradition.

Erwin Panofsky

Early Netherlandish painting. The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1947-1948. Volume two. Plates