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...centuries. But a few big names survived for the town to boast about: Master Illuminator Jean de Tavernier and Tapestry-maker Pasquier Grenier, whose works, commissioned by the great lords of the 15th Century, are now treasured by the museums and libraries of Europe; Painters Roger van der Weyden, Robert Campin and Jacques Daret, whose realistic detail and rich color placed them in the vanguard of the great Flemish artists of the Renaissance...
...more exuberant fashions of the Italian Renaissance swept their homely, literal art from popularity. But before it had done so, Van Eyck and his immediate successors, Roger van der Weyden, Dirk Bouts, Hans Memling and Ger ard David, had made their mark on history as the first realists in European...
...Picta," by Van der Weyden, is an example of the second, more genuinely artistic type of painting. The artist's interpretation of the dying Christ, far from being an attempt to reenforce the religious aspect of the situation, successfully conveys the more human and personal side of His sacrifice. (Here we find the influence of the Italian Renaissance.) Van der Weyden directs his appeal to the individual as a whole rather than to the religious element within the individual. Christ has become less of a far-distant object of veneration and more of an immediate source of sympathy and feeling...
...traditions of craft, stiff standards for 'masters." Flemings were lucky, because this medieval system lasted at least a century longer among them than anywhere else, led to the great technical discovery of oil painting and its first masters-Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, Hans Memling, Roger van der Weyden...
...given masterpieces before they are placed on exhibit. Put under the X-ray, brush strokes stand out clearly revealing the characteristics of the painter. For instance, the brush strokes on "St. Luke and the Virgin" have led Mr. Burroughs to believe that Dirk Bouts, and not Roger van der Weyden, was its painter...