Catalunya i l’Europa septentrional a l’entorn de 1400: Circulació de mestres, obres i models artistics. M. Rosa Terés, ed. IRCVM-Medieval Cultures 5. Rome: Viella, 2016. 374 pp. €45.
Sweerts crossed boundaries—between Italy and the North, between Catholic Flanders and the United Provinces—she builds bridges between areas of scholarship usually kept apart. Brussels emerges as a protagonist that no longer blushes to be put in the company of Antwerp and Rome. The lively text and superb plates capture the fascination of this intelligent cosmopolite and make us regret that such a fine painter would throw in the sponge to head for the Orient.