La peinture en Belgique, musées, églises, collections, etc. : les primitifs flamands
A 1908 Brussels catalogue of Flemish primitive paintings by Hippolyte Fierens-Gevaert, published by G. van Oest for art lovers and scholars, reproducing altarpieces and panels from Belgian museums and churches. The plates are black-and-white photographs of panels with saints, the Virgin and Child, and donors set in Gothic arches and architectural frames, with some pages rotated sideways. A designer can take from them the stiff, jewel-like composition of gold-ground religious panels and their tight framing of figures under canopies.
