Dirk (Thierry) Bouts (ca.1420-1475) Haarlem born Dutch painter who was mainly active in Leurven(Belgium), where he became official town painter in 1468. He was influenced by Rogier van der Weyden, Jan van Eyck and Petrus Christus and he had a large, very active workshop whose output in turn influenced many northern European artists. His most famous works, the Altarpiece of the Last Supper(1464-7) for the cathedral of St.Pierre and the Justice of Emperor Otto III(1470-5) for the Town Hall of Leurven belong to the most important large-scale religious & secular narrative works of the period in northern Europe.
This well documented and illustrated study contains a complete catalogue of his oeuvre and is the most significant book about him since Wolfgang Schöne's famous 1938 publication.

There is also a French edition