Room 56
Early Netherlandish Painting
1434–1490, Flanders and Brabant (today Belgium and the Netherlands), Late Gothic and early oil painting
In Bruges, Ghent and Brussels, fifteenth-century painters brought oil painting to a precision that still astonishes today: Jan van Eyck painted light breaking in gemstones, Rogier van der Weyden faces full of inner emotion, Hans Memling calm, balanced portraits. Hieronymus Bosch added a mysterious pictorial world all his own.