Word: exoduses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treatment of detail which can be found in almost any Flemish painting done by an artist of this period, makes each work of art a scholarly achievement. It is true that during the fifteenth century the Renaissance was well on its way toward what proved to be a comprehensive exodus from the medieval tradition, but nothing is more representative of the scholastic mind than the highly neutralized, cool, sober color of van der Goes and his almost Aristotelian concern for accuracy and precision. It is not difficult to see, simply by examining some of the paintings on exhibit, that...