Table of Contents -- General Introduction -- 1 Objects and Questions (Bernhard Ridderbos) -- 2 Collecting Early Netherlandish Paintings in Europe and the United States (Till-Holger Borchert) -- 3 From Waagen to Friedländer (Bernhard Ridderbos) -- 4 Realism, Renaissance and Nationalism (Wessel Krul) -- 5 Technical Examination (Jeltje Dijkstra) -- 6 The Corpus of Fifteenth-Century Painting in the Southern Netherlands and the Principality of Liège (Henri Pauwels) -- 7 Patronage (Maximiliaan P.J. Martens) -- 8 Iconography and Iconology (Craig Harbison) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index.