Lynn F. Jacobs is Professor of Art at the University of Arkansas.

“This remarkable, lucid book takes on a big and complex subject, still somewhat invisible to scholarship. It fully reconsiders a major late medieval art form: the triptych format of hinged altarpieces. The triptych—along with its components, oil paint technique and refined oak carving—rose to Golden Age prominence in fifteenth-century Flemish art. Offering an impressive survey of this great artistic achievement, Opening Doors truly lives up to its name and contributes fresh new interpretations. Scholars and their students will use this book as a standard work for many years to come.”—Larry Silver, University of Pennsylvania

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Triptych as a “Painting with Doors”Part I: Origins and the First Half of the Fifteenth Century1The Emergence of the Early Netherlandish Triptych I: Robert Campin (and His Associates)2The Emergence of the Early Netherlandish Triptych II: Jan van EyckPart II: The Second Half of the Fifteenth Century3The Triptych Reformulated: Rogier van der Weyden4The Triptych Popularized: Painters of the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century5The Triptych Unified: Memling, David, and Later Fifteenth-Century Painters in BrugesPart III: The Sixteenth Century and Beyond6The World Triptych: Hieronymus Bosch7The Triptych in the Age of the Renaissance and the Reformation8Coda: The Triptych in the Age of RubensNotesBibliographyIndex

Lynn F. Jacobs is Professor of Art at the University of Arkansas.

“This remarkable, lucid book takes on a big and complex subject, still somewhat invisible to scholarship. It fully reconsiders a major late medieval art form: the triptych format of hinged altarpieces. The triptych—along with its components, oil paint technique and refined oak carving—rose to Golden Age prominence in fifteenth-century Flemish art. Offering an impressive survey of this great artistic achievement, Opening Doors truly lives up to its name and contributes fresh new interpretations. Scholars and their students will use this book as a standard work for many years to come.”—Larry Silver, University of Pennsylvania

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Triptych as a “Painting with Doors”Part I: Origins and the First Half of the Fifteenth Century1The Emergence of the Early Netherlandish Triptych I: Robert Campin (and His Associates)2The Emergence of the Early Netherlandish Triptych II: Jan van EyckPart II: The Second Half of the Fifteenth Century3The Triptych Reformulated: Rogier van der Weyden4The Triptych Popularized: Painters of the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century5The Triptych Unified: Memling, David, and Later Fifteenth-Century Painters in BrugesPart III: The Sixteenth Century and Beyond6The World Triptych: Hieronymus Bosch7The Triptych in the Age of the Renaissance and the Reformation8Coda: The Triptych in the Age of RubensNotesBibliographyIndex

Lynn F. Jacobs is Professor of Art at the University of Arkansas.

“This remarkable, lucid book takes on a big and complex subject, still somewhat invisible to scholarship. It fully reconsiders a major late medieval art form: the triptych format of hinged altarpieces. The triptych—along with its components, oil paint technique and refined oak carving—rose to Golden Age prominence in fifteenth-century Flemish art. Offering an impressive survey of this great artistic achievement, Opening Doors truly lives up to its name and contributes fresh new interpretations. Scholars and their students will use this book as a standard work for many years to come.”—Larry Silver, University of Pennsylvania

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Triptych as a “Painting with Doors”Part I: Origins and the First Half of the Fifteenth Century1The Emergence of the Early Netherlandish Triptych I: Robert Campin (and His Associates)2The Emergence of the Early Netherlandish Triptych II: Jan van EyckPart II: The Second Half of the Fifteenth Century3The Triptych Reformulated: Rogier van der Weyden4The Triptych Popularized: Painters of the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century5The Triptych Unified: Memling, David, and Later Fifteenth-Century Painters in BrugesPart III: The Sixteenth Century and Beyond6The World Triptych: Hieronymus Bosch7The Triptych in the Age of the Renaissance and the Reformation8Coda: The Triptych in the Age of RubensNotesBibliographyIndex