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  2. List of works by Jan van Eyck - Wikipedia

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    Van Eyck was the first major European artist to utilize oil painting. Though the use of oil paint preceded Van Eyck by many centuries, his virtuosic handling and manipulation of oil paint, use of multiple half-transparent layers of paint, glazes, wet-on-wet and other techniques was such that Giorgio Vasari started the myth that Van Eyck had ...

  3. Arnolfini Portrait - Wikipedia

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    The portrait has been considered by Erwin Panofsky and some other art historians as a unique form of marriage contract, recorded as a painting. [6] Signed and dated by van Eyck in 1434, it is, with the Ghent Altarpiece by the same artist and his brother Hubert, the oldest very famous panel painting to have been executed in oils rather than in ...

  4. Jan van Eyck - Wikipedia

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    The Arnolfini Portrait, oil on oak, 1434. National Gallery, London. Jan van Eyck (/ v æ n ˈ aɪ k / van EYEK; Dutch: [ˈjɑɱ vɑn ˈɛik]; c. before 1390 – 9 July 1441) was a Flemish painter active in Bruges who was one of the early innovators of what became known as Early Netherlandish painting, and one of the most significant representatives of Early Northern Renaissance art.

  5. Portrait of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini, 29 x 20cm.Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. Portrait of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini (or Portrait of a Man in a Red Chaperon) is a small c. 1438 portrait by Jan van Eyck believed to be the same person as in the famous 1434 Arnolfini Portrait due to the similarities of facial features.

  6. Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?) - Wikipedia

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    Typically for van Eyck, the head is a little large in relation to the torso. The technique shows the "skill, economy and speed" of van Eyck's best work. [8] Campbell describes the painting of the left eye as follows: "The white of the eye is laid in white mixed with minute quantities of red and blue.

  7. Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych - Wikipedia

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    Art historian John Ward highlights the rich and complex iconography and symbolic meaning van Eyck employed to bring attention to what he saw as the co-existence of the spiritual and material worlds. In his paintings, iconographical features are typically subtly woven into the work, as "relatively small, in the background, or in the shadow ...

  8. Category:Paintings by Jan van Eyck - Wikipedia

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    Paintings by Jan van Eyck (c.1390−1441) — a 15th-century Flemish Early Netherlandish painter, in the Burgundian Netherlands and court of Philip the Good. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.

  9. Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele - Wikipedia

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    The Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele, 1434–1436.Oil on wood, 141 x 176.5 cm (including frame), 122 x 157 cm (excluding frame). Groeningemuseum, Bruges.. The Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele is a large oil-on-oak panel painting completed around 1434–1436 by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck.

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