During the past few decades, admirers of Petrus Christus have been
astonishingly fortunate. Unknown or forgotten paintings in the
style of Christus have turned up with surprising regularity: in the
1950s, the wonderful Kansas City Holy Family; in the 1960s the
Birmingham Christ and the Bruges Isabella of Portugal Presented by
Saint Elisabeth in the 1980s, the Cleveland Baptist and the
problematic Bruges panels of the Annunciation and the Nativity.
Nothing, of course, can compensate for the loss, during World War
II, of the Dessau Crucifixion, and the Berlin wing panels of the
Baptist and Saint Catherine. We had to wait until 1974 for the
first monograph devoted to Christus, but since then two more books
on Christus have been published and important discoveries have been
made about his career in Bruges. Thanks to Maryan Ainsworth and her
colleagues, we had a truly marvellous exhibition, where we had the
privilige of studying more of Chrsitus' paintings than he himself
can ever have seen gathered in one place. The exhibition itself
initiated a new phase in Christus studies and it is the ideal
beginning. If problems of attribution and chronology are ever to be
settled, they had to be settled during the exhibition. This
publication offers the papers of the 1994 Petrus Christus Symposium
at The Metropolitan Museum in New York. L. Campbell, Approaches to
Petrus Christus, W. Blockmans, The Creative Environment: Inventions
and Functions of Bruges Art Production, C. Harbison, Fact, Symbol,
Ideal, Roles for Realism in Early Netherlandish Painting, G.B.
Canfield, The Reception of Flemish Art in Renaissance Florence and
Naples, M.P.J. Martens, Discussion, J. Upton, PETRUS.XPI.ME.FECIT,
The Transformation of a Legacy, S. Buck, Petrus Christus' Berlin
Wings and the Metropolitan Museum's Eyckian Diptych, S. Jones, The
Virgin of Nicholas van Maelbeke and the Followers of Jan Van Eyck,
C. Eisler, Discussion, L. Gellman, Two Lost Portraits by Petrus
Christu
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