Jan Van Eyck Flashcards
Which kind of Renaissance painting is The Arnolfini Portrait an example of?
Northern Renaissance
Didn’t just happen in Italy, also in North if Europe like Holland and Belgium
Stylistic difference between Uccello and Van Eyck painting?
Smaller - Dutch painters focused more on refined detail than size.
The Arnolfini Portrait was painted when?
1434
What are some features of fine detail in Eycks painting?
Mirror- decorative crosses and faithful reflection of the convex surface.
Naturalistic representation of light - delicate flickering on chandelier.
Below chandelier ‘Jan Van Eyck was here’ in Latin. (Two reminders of artists presence- proud of his work!)
Who are the couple on The Arnolfini Portrait?
What was first assumed?
What have we now discovered?
Wealthy Italian merchant family from Lucca.
Painting a testimony to wedding and she was pregnant.
She is holding up skirts as was popular to show of artists skill.
Why is Arnolfini Portrait considered significant in the history of art?
What did Ernst Gombrich (art historian) say of it?
Astoundingly lifelike.
‘A simple corner of the real world had suddenly been fixed on to a panel as if by magic…’
(The idea that painters were supernatural copying of the real world interesting and important)
