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Episode 22 - A Little Cloth

Johan Maelwael (Jean Malouel), Madonna with the Butterflies, c 1410

Possibly tempera and oil on canvas, 42 ¼ x 32 in (107.5 x 80.9 cm)

Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Guido da Siena, Paliotto: Transfiguration, Entrance into Jerusalem, and Resurrection of Lazarus, c 1270 - 1275

Tempera and gold on canvas, 35 ½ x 73 ¼ in (90 x 186 cm)

Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena

Egypt, Shroud of a Woman Wearing a Fringed Tunic, 170 – 200 CE

Linen, paint (tempera), 90 5/8 × 43 5/8 in (230.2 × 110.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Painted linen (detail) from a grave in Gebelein

Total dimensions of original could be c 39 1/2 x 126 in (100 x 320 cm)

Naqada IIa-b, circa 3600 BCE

Museo Egizio, Turin

Agnes Vanden Bossche (attributed to,) Military standard with the Virgin and the Lion of Ghent, late 15th century

Oil and tempera on linen, 41 x 107 ¼ in (104 x 272.5 cm)

City Museum of Ghent

German, The Armorial of Conrad von Grünenberg, 1483

Illumination on parchment, 14 ½ x 12 ¼ in (37 x 31 cm)

The Library of Congress, Washington DC

Dirk Bouts, The Annunciation, c 1450-55

Distemper on linen, 35 7/16 × 29 3/8 in (90 × 74.6 cm)

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Dirk Bouts, The Entombment, c 1450s

Glue tempera on canvas, 34 ½ x 29 in (87.5 × 73.6 cm)

National Gallery, London

After Dirk Bouts, The Adoration of the Magi, 16th century

Pen and ink on paper

Uffizi, Florence

Dirk Bouts, The Crucifixion, c 1450

Tempera on canvas, 70 ½ x 60 in (179 x 152 cm)

Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Dirk Bouts, The Resurrection, c. 1455

Distemper on linen, 35 3/8 x 29 1/4 in (89.9 x 74.3 cm)

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena

Simon Bening, The Da Costa Hours: November, Preparing Flax, c 1515

Parchment, detail of a page 6 3/4 x 5 in (17.2 x 12.5 cm)

The Morgan Library & Museum, New York

Maerten van Heemskerck, Portrait of a Lady Spinning, c 1531

Oil on panel, (105 x 86 cm)

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museo Nacional, Madrid

The Hours of Catherine of Cleves, Holy Family at Work, c 1440

Parchment, detail of a page 7 1/2 x 5 1/8 in (19.2 x 13 cm)

The Morgan Library & Museum, New York

German, The Birth of the Virgin, ca. 1430

Panel, 33 ¼ x 13 ½ in (84.5 x 34.7 cm)

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Hans Memling, St Ursula Shrine: Arrival in Basel, 1489
Oil on panel, 13 3/4 x 10 in (35 x 25.3 cm)
Memlingmuseum, Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges

Albert van Ouwater, The Raising of Lazarus, c. 1455
Oil on wood, 48 x 36 ¼ in (122 x 92 cm)
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Dirk Bouts, Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament, 1464-68
Oil on panel, 70 ¾ x 59 in (180 x 150 cm) (central panel)

Sint-Pieterskerk, Leuven

Dirk Bouts, The Resurrection, c. 1455

Distemper on linen, 35-3/8 x 29-1/4 in (89.9 x 74.3 cm)

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena

Dirk Bouts, Lamentation, c 1460

Oil on oak, 27 x 19 in (68.9 x 49 cm)

Musée du Louvre, Paris

Justus of Ghent, The Adoration of the Magi, c 1475

Distemper on canvas, 43 x 63 in (109.2 x 160 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The reverse of a canvas painting attached to a strainer

Hans Burgkmair, Saint Luke Painting the Virgin, 1507

 Woodcut on paper, 8 13/16 x 6 3/16 in (22.4 x 15.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Unpainted canvas stretched on a strainer

Hans Burgkmair, The Emperor Maximilian in a Painter's Studio, c. 1518
Woodcut, state II, 8 ½ x 7 ¾ in (21.5 x 19.5 cm)

Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin

Recommended Reading

Rachel Billinge, Lorne Campbell, Jill Dunkerton, Susan Foister, Jo Kirby, Jennie Pilc, Ashok Roy, Marika Spring and Raymond White, “Methods and Materials of Northern European Painting in the National Gallery, 1400- 1550,” National Gallery Technical Bulletin,  Vol. 18, Early Northern European Painting, 1997

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/research/research-resources/technical-bulletin/technical-bulletin-volume-18

David Bomford, Ashok Roy, and Alistair Smith, “The Techniques of Dieric Bouts: Two Paintings Contrasted,” National Gallery Technical Bulletin Vol. 10, 1986

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/research/research-resources/technical-bulletin/technical-bulletin-volume-10

Caroline Villers, "Artists Canvas, A History," International Council of Museums (ICOM) Committee for Conservation 7th Triennial Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, 1981

https://www.icom-cc-publications-online.org/3607/Artists-canvases--a-history

Diane Wolfthal, The Beginnings of Netherlandish Canvas Painting: 1400 – 1530, 1989

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