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All nine of Jan van Eyck's surviving portraits are coming together for the very first time in history
On the National Gallery’s website, the most-visited painting page is devoted to the Arnolfini Portrait. According to the London museum, this painting of a married couple, created by Jan van Eyck in ...
Among the many treasures of Saint Bavo’s Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium, is a massive altarpiece painted by the Renaissance ...
Around half of the known works by Flemish master Jan van Eyck will be exhibited in a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition in Belgium next week alongside the newly restored Ghent Altarpiece, one of the most ...
For the first time in history, all of Van Eyck’s surviving portraits—nearly half of his entire known output—will be displayed together at London’s National Gallery. Jan van Eyck, Margaret, the ...
No, reader, this is not a centuries-old painting of a shotgun wedding. Despite appearances, the woman in green is not believed to be pregnant. Art historians, in truth, have not come to many ...
While museums around the globe are closed to the public, we are spotlighting each day an inspiring exhibition that was previously on view. Even if you can’t see it in person, allow us to give you a ...
The museum of fine art, Ghent has announced that the first phase of restoration of The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, better known as the Ghent Altarpiece, has been completed, revealing an unexpected ...
Last winter, the results of an eight-year, $2.4 million restoration effort on the Ghent Altarpiece went viral when the 12-panel painting’s central figure, a lamb symbolizing Jesus, was mocked ...
In his 1550 volume Lives of the Artists, painter and architect Giorgio Vasari snuck in praise for the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck in his chapter on the Italian painter Antonello da Messina. Vasari ...
The famed Ghent Altarpiece has long been attributed to two artists: Dutch master Jan van Eyck and his lesser-known older brother Hubert, who died six years before the artwork was completed, in 1432.
Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. This two-part painting by the incomparable Jan van Eyck is like black ...
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