Early Netherlandish painting

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Early Netherlandish painting<ref name="Panofsky">{{cite book

| last = Panofsky
| first = Erwin
| year = 1953
| title = Early Netherlandish Painting

}}</ref> is a term art historians use to designate a group of painters who were active primarily in the Southern Netherlands in the 15th and early 16th centuries. They embodied at the same time the culmination of the Middle Ages and the transition to Renaissance. The period corresponds to the Italian Renaissance, but the style is generally not seen as a part of the Renaissance.<ref name="Janson">{{cite book

| last = Janson
| first = H.W.
| authorlink =
| coauthors = Janson, Anthony F.
| year = 1997
| title = History of Art
| edition = 5th, rev.
| publisher = Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
| location = New York
| url = http://www.abramsbooks.com
| id = ISBN-0-8109-3442-6

}}</ref>

1 Designation
2 Painters
3 See also
4 References

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Designation

There is no consensus regarding the name given to this group. The painting is also called Late Gothic, emphasizing the continuity with the Middle Ages<ref name="Janson"/>. The painters are also known as the Flemish Primitives, not because their art lacked sophistication (quite to the contrary), but because they were at the origin of a whole new tradition in painting with the use of oil paint, instead of tempera. Since Flanders was the leading region in the Netherlands in this period, Flemish and Netherlandish are often used interchangeably.

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