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Sign up and get your dose of art history delivered straight to your inbox! Jan van Eyck was a Flemish painter active in Bruges who was born in and died in He was one of the innovators of what became known as Early Netherlandish painting, and one of the most significant representatives of Early Northern Renaissance art.
His technical brilliance and formal balance of style served as a model to generations of painters both North and South of the Alps. Ready to learn more about him? National Gallery, London with Als ich kan signature. Milan Filio 93v, Inv Hand G is now being attributed to Jan Van Eyck.
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We use cookies to provide website functionality, to analyze traffic on our DailyArt Sites, personalize Masks are required for all visitors. The work of the Van Eycks, epitomized in the Ghent Altarpiece , brought an unprecedented realism to the themes and figures of late medieval art. Van Eyck pursued a career at two courts, working for John of Bavaria, count of Hainaut-Holland —24 , and then securing a prestigious appointment with Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy — Evidence that the Van Eycks bore a coat-of-arms, and thus belonged to the gentry, and that Jan was literate as shown by his own handwriting on a drawing , is consistent with the probability that some of his frequent travels for the duke were diplomatic missions.
In his own time, Jan van Eyck was internationally recognized for the exquisite details in both his religious paintings and secular portraiture; he was entrusted with painting the portraits of some of Europe's most influential people during his career. After John of Bavaria's death in January of , Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, incorporated Holland under his rule, as well as many of the former duke's possessions and court appointees.
In addition to his duties as court painter, the position of valet was a title of distinction that gave him official standing in the court, an unusually high status to an artist in the early 15th century. His emergence as a collectable painter generally followed this appointment, and from this point on his activity in the court is comparatively well documented. With his exceptionally well-paid court employment and social standing, van Eyck maintained independence from the painters' guild of Bruges while also maintaining his own commissions beyond his court duties.
In , the artist traveled to Tournai to attend a banquet on the feast of St. Lucas, with other leading artists Robert Campin and Rogier van der Weyden in attendance. Some write that he was named a senior member of the guild at this time. Van Eyck visits again the following year, though the reason is not known. Philip the Good also sent Jan on missions of extreme trust, described in records as "certain distant and secret journeys," possibly including a pilgrimage for Philip into the Holy Land, and extensive travels to Italy, where he met Florentine artists, Masaccio in particular, to England, and perhaps to Prague between and His strong visual memory allowed him to recall many people and historic scenes that were forever useful in his paintings.
Better-known is the well-documented diplomatic voyage to Lisbon in , where he painted two portraits of Princess Isabella of Portugal who was to be Philip's third wife. The paintings were sent back to the duke separately, one by land and the other by sea. Unfortunately, although both betrothal portraits were received by Philip, they are now lost and only copies remain. The trust placed in van Eyck on these travels representing the duke suggests the closeness and even admiration Philip held for the artist.
Although not formally educated, van Eyck could read and write, demonstrating his knowledge of Latin, Greek and Hebrew through inscriptions on his paintings and their distinctive frames. A well-known incident transcribed in Wolfgang Stechow's Northern Renaissance Art: Sources and Documents highlights the respect Philip held for the artist.
When the exchequer withheld payment from the artist, the duke rebuked this decision, writing: "We have heard that you do not readily verify certain of our letters granting life pension to our well-beloved equerry painter, Jan van Eyck, whereby he cannot be paid said pension; and for this reason, he will find it necessary to leave our service, which would cause us great displeasure, for we would retain him for certain great works with which we intend henceforth to occupy him and we would not find his like more to our taste, one so excellent in his art and science.
An unusual, and perhaps less documented, achievement of van Eyck is pointed out by author and lecturer of science and humanities, Scott L. Montgomery who credits van Eyck with creating the earliest known naturalistic representations of the moon in Western art, predating the drawings of the same subject by Leonardo da Vinci by 85 years.
He credits this achievement to "the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck, possibly in partial collaboration with his brother, Hubert" as occurring between and Barbara and the Knights of Christ panel of the renowned Ghent Altarpiece Art historian Jelte Dijkstra who wrote on the technical aspects of the early Netherlandish artists singled out the artist from his peers, writing: "Jan van Eyck seems to be exceptional: if any of the early Netherlandish painters could be said to have produced 'authentic' works, it is this artist.
Eight signed and dated paintings survive, not including the Ghent Altarpiece with its contended inscription. James Van Der Zee was a renowned, Harlem-based photographer known for his posed, storied pictures capturing African American citizenry and celebrity. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a leading figure in Modernist architecture. Martin Van Buren was the eighth president of the United States.
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