This richly illustrated volume is the sixth installment of the authoritative Catalogue of Early Netherlandish Painting: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, a landmark scholarly series documenting one of the most important museum collections of fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Netherlandish art. The series is dedicated to the paintings held by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels and provides in-depth, object-based research grounded in decades of curatorial and technical study.
Volume VI focuses on the Bernard van Orley group, a key figure in the transition from late Gothic traditions to Renaissance visual culture in the Southern Netherlands. The catalog presents a comprehensive analysis of works attributed to van Orley and his workshop, combining historical context with close visual reading. Each painting is examined in detail, addressing attribution, iconography, stylistic development, and condition, and is supported by extensive visual material. Alongside high-quality color reproductions, the volume includes technical documentation, comparative images, and supporting illustrations that illuminate workshop practices and artistic networks of the period.
About the Series
The Catalogue of Early Netherlandish Painting: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium is a six-volume scholarly project dedicated to the systematic study of the museum’s collection of Early Netherlandish paintings. Each volume combines art-historical research with technical investigation, offering detailed entries, comparative material, and comprehensive visual documentation. Together, the series forms an essential reference for scholars, curators, and collectors of Northern Renaissance art.
Volumes in the series:
The Flemish Primitives I: The Master of Flémalle and Rogier van der Weyden Groups (1996)
The Flemish Primitives II: Bouts–Christus–Memling–Goes (1999)
The Flemish Primitives III: Hieronymus Bosch, Albrecht Bouts, Gerard David, Colijn de Coter, Goossen van der Weyden (2002)
The Flemish Primitives IV: Masters with Provisional Names (2006)
The Flemish Primitives V: Anonymous Masters (2009)
The Flemish Primitives VI: The Bernard van Orley Group (2013)
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