During the final years of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the century that followed, there arose in the Netherlands a highly refined variant of Late Gothic architecture. [1] Most familiar through the sophisticated baldachins, fountains, and thrones in paintings by Jan Gossaert, Bernaert van Orley, and Quentin Massys, it has been seen as a historically self-conscious reference, a recovery of an ideal past akin to the copying and emulation of the works of Jan van Eyck. [2] ...