The July issue of The Burlington Magazine, dedicated to Northern European art, is now available. A key highlight includes an innovative study surveying the surviving original frames of Jan Van Eyck’s paintings, which reveals the artist’s sophisticated, often-ignored design choices. Additionally, fresh analysis of Dieric Bouts’s Descent from the Cross triptych explores its construction, iconography, patronage, and a related copy in Valencia.

The issue also features a reassessment of scarce archival records for Meynnart Wewyck, offering a much richer understanding of this early Tudor King’s Painter. Furthermore, two seventeenth-century Flemish sculptures in Budapest, previously thought to be nineteenth-century works, are correctly reattributed to Giusto Le Court.

Finally, reviews cover exhibitions on ‘Gothic by Design’ in New York, Van Dyck in Genoa, and Henri Rousseau in Paris. Book reviews in this issue cover Albrecht Dürer, Netherlandish sculpture, Michel Dorigny, Surrealism in China, and the WWI European art market.

Contents

Articles

Jan van Eyck’s frames
By Peter Schade

The early history of the Granada triptych by Dieric Bouts
By Bart Fransen and Sjors Nab

Evidence for the life and work of Meynnart Wewyck
By Matthew Payne

Two sculptures by Giusto Le Court in Budapest: provenance and conservation
By Fanny Agárdi, Zsófia Vargyas and Miriam Szőcs

The reunion of a donor and his icon
By Sven van Dorst

Painting a prince of Tunis: Rubens’s ‘Mulay Ahmad’ reconsidered
By Adam Sammut

New archival discoveries concerning Gillis Van Tilborgh and his wife, Maria Goddin
Shorter notice by Leen Kelchtermans

The July issue is now available in digital and print version. For full content and ordering information, visit The Burlington’s website.