`The Housebook Master' Craftsman

From: The Washington Post | Date: December 11, 1998| Author: Hank Burchard | Copyright information

SANDWICHED between the Van Gogh and Edo blockbuster exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art is another show of such depth and beauty it would be the headliner at almost any other major museum. "Love and War: A Manual for Life in the Late Middle Ages" displays the masterwork of a mystery artist who has fascinated art lovers and historians for more than 500 years.

The 15th-century illuminated German manuscript, drawn and painted by a genius known only as "The Housebook Master...

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