Jan van Eyck
Jan van Eyck Biography
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.
Jan van Eyck 27 Most Important Paintings and Artworks
- The Crucifixion. The Last Judgment.
c.1420-25. Tempera and oil on canvas, transfered from panel. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Read Note.
- The Birth Of John The Baptist (Miniature From The Très Belles Heures De...
c.1422. Body colour on parchment. Museo Civico d'Arte Antica, Turin, Italy. Read Note.
- The Crucifixion.
1425-1430. Oil on canvas transferred from wood. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Read Note.
- The Last Judgment.
1425-1430. Oil on canvas transferred from wood. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Read Note.
- Man In A Blue Turban.
1430-1433. Oil on wood. Art Museum, Bucharest, Romania.
- Portrait Of Cardinal Nicola Albergati.
c.1432. Oil on wood. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Read Note.
- The Ghent Altarpiece With Altar Wings Closed.
1432. Oil on wood. St. Bavon, Ghent, Belgium.
- The Ghent Altar With Altar Wings Closed.
1432. Oil on wood. St. Bavon, Ghent, Belgium.
- Portrait Of A Young Man.
1432. Oil on wood. The National Gallery, London, UK.
- Madonna From The Inn's Hall.
1433. Oil on wood. The National Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
- Man In A Red Turban.
1433. Oil on panel. The National Gallery, London, UK.
- Giovanni Arnolfini And His Wife Giovanna Cenami (The Arnolfini Marriage).
1434. Tempera on wood. The National Gallery, London, UK. Read Note.
- Giovanni Arnolfini.
1434. Oil on wood. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany. Read Note.
- The Virgin Of The Chancellor Rolin.
1434-1436. Oil on wood. The Louvre, Paris, France. Read Note.
- The Annunciation.
Before 1435. Oil on wood transferred to canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA. Read Note.
- The Lucca Madonna.
1436. Oil on wood. Stedelsches Kunstintitut, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
- The Madonna Of Canon Van Der Paele.
1436. Oil on wood. Musee Communal des Beaux-Arts, Bruges, Belgium.
- Portrait Of Jan De Leeuw.
1436. Oil on wood. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
- Portrait Of Baudouin De Lannoy.
1437. Oil on wood. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
- The Virgin And Child In A Church (A Portable Altar).
1437. Oil on wood. Alte Meister Gallerie, Dresden, Germany.
Jan van Eyck Bibliography
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.
