Jan van Eyck was a Flemish painter, born near Maaseik in present-day Belgium, and one of the founding masters of early Netherlandish painting. He pioneered a technique of applying oil paint in thin, translucent glazes that gave his panels an unprecedented depth of color and tone, achieving a meticulous naturalism that broke decisively from the International Gothic style still dominant elsewhere in Europe. His major works, including the Ghent Altarpiece, completed with his brother Hubert, and the Arnolfini Portrait, are dense with symbolic detail and precise observation, and he was the only major fifteenth-century Netherlandish painter to consistently sign his work, often with the personal motto Als Ich Kan, a pun on his own name.
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It was begun around the mid-1420s and completed by 1432, and it is attributed to the Early Netherlandish painters and brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck.
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Born: Maaseik (Limburg, Flanders, Belgium) (inhabited place)
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9 July 1441
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Surviving records date his birth at around 1380 or 1390, in Maaseik (then Maaseyck, hence his name) by the Limburg in present-day Belgium.
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active in Bruges
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early Netherlandish painter
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Such was his legacy, that he has been called "the inventor of oil-painting" by Vasari, Ernst Gombrich, and others, although this claim is now considered an oversimplification.
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The first extant record of his life comes from the court of John of Bavaria at The Hague where, between 1422 and 1424, payments were made to Meyster Jan den malre (Master Jan the painter) who was then a court painter with the rank of valet de chambre
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The Just Judges, also called The Righteous Judges, is the lower left panel of the Ghent Altarpiece, painted by Jan van Eyck or his brother Hubert Van Eyck between 1430 and 1432. It is believed that the panel shows portraits of sev
Portrait of Isabella of Portugal (van Eyck) (Wikipedia)
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Portrait of Isabella of Portugal was a betrothal painting by the early Netherlandish artist Jan van Eyck that was one of his earliest known works, but is now lost and known only from copies. It dates from his 1428-29 visit to Port
Ghent Altarpiece (Wikipedia)
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The Ghent Altarpiece, also called the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (Dutch: De aanbidding van het Lam Gods), is a very large and complex 15th-century polyptych altarpiece in St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium. It was begun around
Dresden Triptych (Wikipedia)
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The Dresden Triptych (or Virgin and Child with St. Michael and St. Catherine and a Donor, or Triptych of the Virgin and Child) is a very small hinged-triptych altarpiece by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck. It consists
Saint Barbara (van Eyck) (Wikipedia)
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Saint Barbara is a small 1437 drawing on oak panel, signed and dated 1437 by the Netherlandish artist Jan van Eyck. It is unknown if the work is a chalk ground study in pencil for a planned oil painting, an unfinished underdrawing
Madonna of Chancellor Rolin (Wikipedia)
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The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin is an oil painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, dating from around 1435. It is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. It was commissioned by Nicolas Rolin chancellor of the Duchy of
Arnolfini Portrait (Wikipedia)
Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?) (Wikipedia)
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Jan van Eyck
Lucca Madonna (Wikipedia)
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