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Excerpt from The Renaissance of Sculpture in Belgium Summary of that history, in which I shall try to Show that from'the begin ning of the twelfth century, sculpture has been cultivated among us with no less success and continuity than painting, and that not'only sculptors, but schools of sculpture, have followed one another in regular succession from the twelfth century to the present day. The history of painting in the Netherlands is familiar to every lover of art, but that of its sculpture is far more obscure. The works of our sculptors have been either scattered throughout the four quarters of Europe, or hidden In the churches of obscure little Walloon or Flemish Villages unknown to Murray and Baedeker, which even tourists who are interested in art pass by without any suspicion of the masterpieces they conceal. But as the student examines the sculpture of the Netherlands in the thirteenth, ' fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, he is more and more struck by its development and its importance he is gradually led to understand how contemporary Belgian sculptors, guided by one or two powerful individualities, have been able to bring about so brilliant a Renaissance. These men appear as the direct heirs and true posterity of those famous Walloon and Flemish artists for whose services foreign Courts competed in the fifteenth century, and who bequeathed to their descendants - descendants affiliated to them through the Flemish sculptors of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries - together with the craft itself, much of that technical mastery which comes from immemorial practice. This intuitive power seems in some measure to result from the mere fact of a long artistic lineage, and of birth in a country where an art has been uninterruptedly practised. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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