Jan van Eyck and Albrecht Dürer were two titans in a pivotal century in the history of western art. For several generations, the Flemish Primitives inspired artists from the Holy Roman Empire and influenced the course of artistic development in Europe to a degree rivaled only by the innovations of the Italian Renaissance.This ambitious publication represents the first systematic examination of the cultural interaction between the Burgundian Netherlands and its neighbors to the North and East. In addition to well-known (and less well-known) works by Flemish artists such as Van Eyck, Campin, Van der Weyden, and Memling, the book also includes masterpieces by Dürer, Holbein, and Altdorfer as well as artistic gems by less celebrated painters from Germany, Hungary, Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Estonia. A selection of sculptures, illuminated manuscripts, and prints is also included. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Groeninge Museum in Bruges.