The Master of Flemalle and Rogier van der Weyden

The paintings created in the Burgundian Netherlands of the early fifteenth century are characterized by the precise, realistic details and extraordinary power of expression that marked the bird of early modern painting north of the Alps. In addition to the brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck, the "Master of Flémalle," who has often been identified with the painter Robert Campin of Tournai (ca. 1375-1444/45), and Roger van der Weyden (1399/1400-1464), who worked in Campin's workshop between 1427 and 1432 before moving to Brussels to assume the position of city painter, played crucial roles in this development.Many of the nearly sixty paintings in the exhibition, which come from major collections in Europe and the United States, have never been loaned before, while some groups of works have been reunited for the first time in centuries, thus making the exhibition a unique opportunity to compare the individual paintings and to discuss the questions surrounding their origins in a fresh new way.