2021/12/18 by Hannah De Moor, De Moor, Hannah
Arts and Humanities · #Art #Focus (optics) #Historical and Archaeological Studies #Libraries, Manuscripts, and Books #Medieval European History and Architecture #Physics
paper · doi:10.48352/uobxjah.00003475
openalex publication_date 2021/12/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
Netherlandish carved altarpieces have attracted much new scholarly attention over the last decades. The objective of this article is first to provide a comprehensive historiography of the existing body of research, and second to outline the main research trends from the late nineteenth century until now. Even though Sweden still houses no less than thirty-eight late medieval Netherlandish carved altarpieces, about ten retable fragments, and two wooden Malines statuettes,and much has already been written on the pieces preserved there, an extensive description of this research field is currently lacking. The third aim of this paper is to fill the remaining gap by providing an extensive status quaestionis of the research on Netherlandish carved altarpieces in Sweden.