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Eyck

NOUN
  1. Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and who pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441)

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  • I would like to think people come to the Met to see the David Lavoisier, the Van Eyck diptych of the Crucifixion and Last Judgement, and the Velazquez Juan de Pareja.
  • Poussin's use of mirroring armor to encompass something beyond the representation is self-conscious and finds its closest parallel in another work by van Eyck.
  • Peter, am I remembering correctly that your time as a participant at the Jan van Eyck Akademie overlapped with Jan van Toorn's final year there?
  • Award-winning chef Eyck Zimmer serves up modern European cuisine, with delicious dishes such as roast squab or crayfish risotto.
  • Nothing survives which was painted by van Eyck for the Duke, but other works by him indicate that wealthy middle-class and ecclesiastic patrons followed the lead of the Burgundian Duke.
  • He was said to have been a pupil of van Eyck, e.g. by Vasari and other writers, but the researches of Weale in Flemish documents proved this incorrect, and showed that Campin was Rogier's master. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
  • In their installation, a sensor detects the approaching viewer and triggers a projected image of Van Eyck to appear in the mirror.
  • Other evidence throws doubts on the suggestion that van Eyck painted the Arnolfini portrait under a projection onto the oak panel.
  • Although it is often described as an altarpiece, this painting is far more likely to have served as an epitaph - a potential function of this and other pictures by Van Eyck that needs further study.
  • Stork notes that pinpricks show that Jan van Eyck's 1432 portrait of Cardinal Albergati was magnified mechanically, with a proportional compass.
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