Jan van Eyck is considered to be a founder of the Early Renaissance style in the Northern Renaissance. We do not know the exact date and place of his birth, it is believed that he was born in early 1390s in the eastern province of the Netherlands Limburg. He probably was taught the art by his brother Hubert van Eyck, with whom he created the masterpiece The Ghent Altarpiece(1425-1432), which they started in 1425, but after the death of Hubert, his younger brother finished it alone.
c.1420-25. Tempera and oil on canvas, transfered from panel. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Read Note.
c.1422. Body colour on parchment. Museo Civico d'Arte Antica, Turin, Italy. Read Note.
1425-1430. Oil on canvas transferred from wood. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Read Note.
1425-1430. Oil on canvas transferred from wood. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Read Note.
1430-1433. Oil on wood. Art Museum, Bucharest, Romania.
c.1432. Oil on wood. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Read Note.
1432. Oil on wood. St. Bavon, Ghent, Belgium.
1432. Oil on wood. St. Bavon, Ghent, Belgium.
1432. Oil on wood. The National Gallery, London, UK.
1433. Oil on wood. The National Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
1433. Oil on panel. The National Gallery, London, UK.
1434. Tempera on wood. The National Gallery, London, UK. Read Note.
1434. Oil on wood. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany. Read Note.
1434-1436. Oil on wood. The Louvre, Paris, France. Read Note.
Before 1435. Oil on wood transferred to canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA. Read Note.
1436. Oil on wood. Stedelsches Kunstintitut, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
1436. Oil on wood. Musee Communal des Beaux-Arts, Bruges, Belgium.
1436. Oil on wood. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
1437. Oil on wood. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
1437. Oil on wood. Alte Meister Gallerie, Dresden, Germany.
Jan van Eyck. by A. Sarabyanov. Moscow. 1990.
Painting of Europe. XIII-XX centuries. Encyclopedic Dictionary. Moscow. Iskusstvo. 1999.
The Arnolfini Betrothal: Medieval Marriage and the Enigma of Van Eyck's Double Portrait (Discovery Series, 3)
by Edwin Hall. University of California Press, 1997.
Jan Van Eyck: The Play of Realism by Craig Harbison. Reaktion Books, 1997.
Jan Van Eyck: Two Paintings of Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata by J. R. J. Van Asperen De Boer, Kenneth Be, Marigene H. Butler, Peter Klein, Katherine Crawford Luber, Joseph J. Rishel, Maurits Smeyers, James Snyder, Carlenrica Spantigati. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1997.
Van Eyck: the Ghent altarpiece (Art in context) by Elisabeth Dhanens. Viking Press, 1973.