![Favorite purchase from my first-ever trip to Commonwealth Books the other day. I’ve wanted to get my hands on more Northern Renaissance material for a while, and this book rules. Beyond the amazingly primitive color-print frontispiece of Jan van Eyck’s The Arnolfini Portrait, the text has such a great conversational tone, e.g., “A ‘Madonna and Child,’ No. 774, is a charming picture usually given to [Dirk] Bouts, and as no one knows for certain who painted it, we may as well consider and enjoy it under his name.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu55ysdeMJ1qafmygo1_400.jpg)
Favorite purchase from my first-ever trip to Commonwealth Books the other day. I’ve wanted to get my hands on more Northern Renaissance material for a while, and this book rules. Beyond the amazingly primitive color-print frontispiece of Jan van Eyck’s The Arnolfini Portrait, the text has such a great conversational tone, e.g., “A ‘Madonna and Child,’ No. 774, is a charming picture usually given to [Dirk] Bouts, and as no one knows for certain who painted it, we may as well consider and enjoy it under his name.”
