mile Verhaeren 18551916 art critic poet and homme de lettres was a man whose vision transcended his native Belgium. With close ties to Mallarm in France and Rilke in Germany Verhaeren a peripatetic student of the arts readily traveled to Paris Berlin Cassel Vienna and Amsterdam. From the mid1880s until his death in 1916 his many trips abroad resulted in a raft of essays and short monographs on the arts of the Northern Renaissance. Yet despite the insights scholarship and markedly precise and revealing descriptions of these studies they have long been neglected in art historical circles overshadowed perhaps by Verhaerens own poetic outpourings and his numerous essays on contemporary art. In this book Albert Alhadeff translates edits annotates and contextualizes these often brilliant and always revealing studies on artists such as Rembrandt Rubens Memling Bruegel and Grnewald masters from the North who worked mostly in Flanders Holland and Germany in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. As Alhadeff reveals Verhaerens studies of the masters of old in Germany Flanders and the newly born Dutch Republic are as much about Verhaeren the man as they are about the subjects of his inquiries.