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