The Quiet Shift in the Flemish Landscape In the early sixteenth century, the focus of Netherlandish painting began to drift away from the tight, meticulous details of the previous generation. Joachim Patenier, born around 1480 in Dinant or Bouvignes, was at the center of this change. While his predecessors like Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden focused on the sharp precision of textures and figures, Patenier looked toward the hor…