Belgium: From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day
Chapter 11
THE ADORATION OF THE LAMB 124 Civilization under Burgundian rule--French and Flemish; bilingualism--Flemish letters: Jean Boendaele, Ruysbroeck--The Brothers of the Common Life--Writers in French: Jean Le Bel, Froissart, Chastellain--Development of music: Dufay, Ockeghem, etc.--Life in fifteenth-century Belgium--The early "Flemish School of Painting"--Its place in the history of Art--The brothers Van Eyck--Origins of the school; sculpture, illuminating.