The master of Mary of Burgundy

Abstract

HE great Flemish school of painting came into being by an act of emancipation. So suddenly had an artistic province of France become an independent centre of artistic creation thatin spite of the efforts of several generations of scholars -we still have difficulties in finding the link between the new Flemish school of panel-painting and the Gothic art which preceded it. In the sphere of bookillumination, however, the process of emancipation was not completed until the last quarter of the fifteenth century. Only then was Flemish bookpainting brought into line with its monumental sister art. Simultaneously an entirely indigenous ornament was developed and the last traces of French descent vanished from Flemish decoration. The new Flemish school of miniaturists which

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