The palace walls were decorated with colorful low-relief sculptures

Maurizio Ghelardi is a professor of European culture and history at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

Peggy Fogelman is director of education and interpretation at the Peabody Essex Museum

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Early Netherlandish Paintings: Rediscovery, Reception, and Research 2022 Holiday The palace walls were decoratedEdited by Bernhard Ridderbos, Anne van Buren, and Henk van Veen In the fifteenth century, a number of master painters, including Jan van Eyck and Roger Campin, flourished in the Netherlands. However, by the early nineteenth century many of their works had been dispersed by the upheavals of the French Revolution. Rather than offering a chronological discussion, this book presents Early Netherlandish paintings as individual objects that have confronted