'Truly Bright and Memorable': Jan de Beer's Renaissance Altarpieces

Accompanying an exhibition at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts — only the second exhibition ever devoted to the artist — this noteworthy publication considers De Beer’s work and career, working methods, and traces the history of De Beer’s paintings in British collections. The Antwerp painter Jan de Beer (c.1475—1527/28) was highly esteemed in his lifetime and still famous a couple of generations after his death, but then fell into oblivion until the early twentieth century. Only recently h...