Lynn F. Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of Art History at the University of Arkansas. Her previous publications have included two books -- Early Netherlandish Carved Altarpieces: Medieval Tastes and Mass Marketing and Opening Doors: The Early Netherlandish Triptych Reinterpreted -- as well as articles in Art Bulletin, The Sixteenth Century Journal, Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte and elsewhere. In 1990 her Art Bulletin article was awarded the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize by the College Art Association.