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Jan van Eyck

(1390 - 1441)

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. Continued...

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Hubert and Jan van Eyk. The Crucifixion. The Last Judgment. c. 1420-25. Tempera and oil on canvas, transfered from panel. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. More.
The Birth of John the Baptist (miniature from the Très Belles Heures de Notre-Dame). c.1422. Body colour on parchment. Museo Civico d'Arte Antica, Turin, Italy. More.
The Crucifixion. 1425-1430. Oil on canvas transferred from wood. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. More.
The Last Judgment. 1425-1430. Oil on canvas transferred from wood. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. More.
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. More.
The Ghent Altarpiece
The Ghent Altarpiece with altar wings closed. 1432. Oil on wood. St. Bavon, Ghent, Belgium.
The Ghent Altarpiece with altar wings closed. 1432. Oil on wood. St. Bavon, Ghent, Belgium.
The Annunciation. Gabriel. (Detail). 1432. Oil on wood. St. Bavon, Ghent, Belgium. More.
The Annunciation. Virgin. (Detail). 1432. Oil on wood. St. Bavon, Ghent, Belgium. More.
Donors and Saints. 1432. Oil on wood. St. Bavon, Ghent, Belgium.
Donors and Saints. 1432. Oil on wood. St. Bavon, Ghent, Belgium.
The Ghent Altarpiece with altar wings open. 1432. Oil on wood. St. Bavon, Ghent, Belgium.
The Ghent Altarpiece (central section). Virgin. Christ. John the Baptist. Adoration of the Lamb. 1432. Oil on wood. St. Bavon, Ghent, Belgium.
Adam and Eve. 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. More.
Giovanni Arnolfini. 1434. Oil on wood. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany. More.
The Virgin of the Chancellor Rolin. 1434-1436. Oil on wood. The Louvre, Paris, France. More.
The Annunciation. Before 1435. Oil on wood transferred to canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA. More.
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.
The Virgin and Child in a Church (central section of a portable altar). 1437. Oil on wood. Alte Meister Gallerie, Dresden, Germany.
St. Barbara. 1437. Silverpoint on paper. Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium. More.
Madonna in a Church. 1437-1439. Oil on wood. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany. 
Madonna by the Fountain. 1439. Oil on wood. Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium. 
Portrait of Margaret van Eyck, Artist's Wife(?). 1439. Oil on wood. Stedelijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Bruges, Belgium. 
The Annunciation. 1440. Oil on wood. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Lugano-Castagnola, Switzerland. More.
Virgin and Child with Saints and Donor. 1441. Oil on wood. The Frick Collection, New York, USA.

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