Explain why, in Huizinga’s view, should we think about fifteenth-century Flemish art as belonging to the middle ages?

In Autumntide of the Middle Ages (1919), the Dutch cultural historian Johan Huizinga wants his readers to see the art of Jan van Eyck and his contemporaries as essentially “medieval” rather than heralding the rebirth of art and culture that we have been calling the “Renaissance.” Explain why, in Huizinga’s view, should we think about fifteenth-century Flemish art as belonging to the middle ages?

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