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Jan van Dyck is known for The Nipple Whisperer (2021), Rebel (2022) and Until It Hits You (2013).
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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.
Jun 5, 2024 · Jan van Eyck was Netherlandish painter who perfected the newly developed technique of oil painting. His naturalistic panel paintings, mostly portraits and religious subjects, include the Ghent Altarpiece (1432), Portrait of a Man (1433), and the Arnolfini Portrait (1434).
Jan van Eyck is the most famous member of a family of painters traditionally believed to have originated from the town of Maaseik, in the diocese of Liège. The work of the Van Eycks, epitomized in the Ghent Altarpiece, brought an unprecedented realism to the themes and figures of late medieval art.
- Arnolfini Portrait. Jan van Eyck’s The Arnolfini Portrait, one of the most famous portraits of a married couple in history, was completed in 1434 as an oil painting on a hardwood panel, a popular medium at the time.
- Ghent Altarpiece. Hubert and Jan van Eyck created one of the most famous paintings to come out of the Dutch region: a polyptych in which each panel depicts a major character or event from the Christian Old Testament or New Testament Bible.
- Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?) The 1433 oil work Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?) is also known as Portrait of a Man with a Turban. Als Ich Can (intended as “as I/Eyck can”) appears at the top of the panel in an unusually large and prominent handwriting style for van Eyck.
- Madonna of Chancellor Rolin. A picture of the Madonna, completed in oil in 1435. Nicolas Rolin, age 60, chancellor of the Duchy of Burgundy, whose votive portrait occupies the left side of the picture, commissioned this altarpiece for his parish church, Notre-Dame-du-Chastel in Autun.
Jan van Eyck Netherlandish. ca. 1436–38. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 605. Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, considered Van Eyck—his court painter—unequaled in his "art and science." The artist’s expansive yet microcosmic paintings seem observed through both a microscope and a telescope.
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This is a list of works by the Early Netherlandish artist Jan van Eyck. He was not a prolific artist; only twenty paintings attributed to him, although a great many others are believed destroyed or lost. Van Eyck was the first major European artist to utilize oil painting.
