Jan van Eyck - Finestre sull'Arte

Van der Paele Madonna, Jan van Eyck's greatest work since the Gent Polyptych

The Madonna of Joris van der Paele is the greatest work by Jan van Eyck (Maaseik, c. 1390 Bruges, 1441) since the Polyptych of the Mystic Lamb. The work was made between 1434 and 1436 at the behest of Joris van der Paele (c. 1370-c. 1443), canon...
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Major exhibition dedicated to Jan van Eyck in Flanders is visited virtually

Due to the health emergency, the exhibition Van Eyck. An Optical Revolution has closed to the public, but Flanders is launching the Stay at Home Museum project, a virtual platform that aims to offer art lovers around the world the chance to view the ...
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The works and places of Jan van Eyck in Bruges, in the heart of Flanders.

In the early 1430s the Flemish painter Jan van Eyck (Maaseik, c. 1390 - Bruges, 1441), after spending a year in Lille, moved to Bruges, in West Flanders, in the service of the Dukes of Burgundy. The city, which since the Middle Ages had presented it...
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But how had Jan van Eyck managed to create such realistic works? This is how he arrived at his optical revolution

One of the most quoted literary passages about the great Jan van Eyck (Maaseik, c. 1390 - Bruges, 1441) is the incipit of the chapter devoted to him in Bartolomeo Facio 's De viris illustribus (La Spezia, c. 1400 - Naples, 1457): the treatise by ...
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In Ghent, Flanders, the largest ever exhibition on Jan van Eyck, featuring half of his known works

Running from February 1 to April 30, 2020 is the exhibition Van Eyck. An optical revolution, the largest ever dedicated to Jan van Eyck (Maaseik, c. 1390 - Bruges, 1441). The venue for the exhibition is the Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Museum of Fine ...
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