Illuminated Manuscripts from Belgium and the Netherlands at the J. Paul Getty Museum

During the Middle Ages the geographical region occupied today by Belgium and the Netherlands flourished economically and artistically. While widely known as the era of Jan van Eyck—the great painter in oil on panel—the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries also witnessed one of the greatest flowering of the art of illumination anywhere in Europe. The region's colorful, naturalistically painted books were eagerly sought after across the continent.

This volume, the fourth in the series on the J. P...