The Bold & The Beautiful: In Flemish PortraitsPortraits from an important Belgian collection, most of which have never before been published Men in stately black, women with huge ruffs, children with golden rattles, old women with wizened faces, and self satisfied artists These are the main players in just about every portrait ever painted in the Southern Netherlands. From the15th to the 17th centuries, the tract of land that we today call Flanders was the economic, cultural, intellectual and