Hugo van der Goes and the Trinity Panels in Edinburgh

Language: English

Published by Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1974

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1974, 1st ed. vi + 112pp plus 81 plates(4 colour). The book is in excellent condition with no inscriptions. The unclipped dust jacket is very good with some shelf wear and a couple of small, closed tears. "The Trinity Panels in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, are among the most splendid and important of early Netherlandish works of art, and have the added interest of being by far the most significant paintings to have survived the Scottish Reformation. Yet they have been strangely underestimated, both in Scotland and elsewhere. The present book is an attempt to reinstate the panels and to consider the light they shed on the work of Van der Goes as a whole. Colin Thompson is Keeper of the National Gallery of Scotland, where the panels are on extended loan from Her Majesty The Queen. Lorne Campbell is Speelman Fellow in Dutch and Flemish Art, Wolfson College, Cambridge . The central part of their study is a critical examination of the quality of the original paintings, their present state of preservation, and the documentary evidence concerning their history. Lorne Campbell examines the original setting of the panels and their purpose, the possible circumstances of their execution, and their dating. He also reviews the available evidence on the life and work of Van der Goes and makes a short survey of relations between Scotland and the Netherlands in the second half of the fifteenth century. Colin Thompson makes detailed comparisons of the style of the panels with that of the five other most important works by Van der Goes, and studies the artist's development as a designer, draughtsman, and colorist, and the evolution of his technique. New evidence is provided by a number of hitherto unpublished infrared detail photographs of the large-scale works of Van der Goes. Those of the Portinari altarpiece are of special interest since they support a suggestion advanced here that the two wings of the Portinari altarpiece were painted several years later than its center panel. ".…

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Title
Hugo van der Goes and the Trinity Panels in Edinburgh
Author
Thompson, Colin & Campbell, Lorne
Publisher
Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Publication year
1974
Condition
Very Good Plus
Dust jacket
Very Good
Binding
Original Beige Cloth Hardback
Language
English
Illustrator
Hugo van der Goes
Edition
First Edition
Dimensions
10" Tall
Seller catalogs
Art, Edinburgh, Scottish Art

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