Volume 9, Number 1 · July 13, 1967
Dutch Master
By L.M.J. Delaisse
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Introduction and Commentaries by John Plummer
Braziller, 360 pp., $20.00
In history, particularly in the history of art, some discoveries can completely overthrow traditional views on the work of a master, on the appreciation of a school, even on the appraisal of an entire period. For instance, the date 1437 discovered a few years ago on the frame of Jan van Eyck's Dresden triptych thoroughly upsets traditional interpretations of the aesthetic development of this painter and forces us to find new stylistic criteria which will satisfactorily explain his evolution. The recent acquisition of The Hours of Catherine of Cleves by the Morgan Library in New York, a manuscript unknown hitherto, presents us with a discovery of even greater importance.
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