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Until a couple of years ago, if somebody remarked how much they liked the Flemish Primitives, you probably would have assumed they were referring to Jan van Eyck and other Early Renaissance artists who flourished in the Low Countries more than 500 years ago.
Where stars shine brightly Bruce Palling 2011
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The show highlights 40 diptychs, paintings on two hinged panels that can be opened and closed like a book, by artists such as Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling, and Hugo van der Goes, among others.
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The show highlights 40 diptychs, paintings on two hinged panels that can be opened and closed like a book, by artists such as Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling, and Hugo van der Goes, among others.
Yale Press Log: 2006
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Called Arnolfini, in honor of the Flemish painter Jan van Eyck, the bejeweled chandelier, rendered out of glass containers, including egg cups and poison bottles, suggests a phantasmagoric Still Life painting.
Out of the Gallery and Into the Home J. S. Marcus 2011
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Her virtuoso skill is yoked to a visionary and deeply historical sensibility influenced by 17th century masters including Francisco Goya, Albrecht Dürer and Jan van Eyck, as well as religious painters, particularly Heironymus Bosch.
ArtScene: Southern California's Top Ten Exhibition Picks for 2010 ArtScene 2011
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In the great majority of work, the artists used oil paint, a technique invented during Gutenberg's lifetime, probably by the Flemish painter Jan van Eyck, who is credited with combining mineral pigments with an oil medium that eventually dried.
Jonathan Franzen is wrong: the digital age is making us smarter | Henry Porter 2012
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund Jan van Eyck's 'The Crucifixion' and 'The Last Judgment' From here we walk to the early Netherlandish galleries to see Jan van Eyck's two altar panels, respectively depicting the Crucifixion and Last Judgment c.
Finding Parallels in Paintings Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011
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Her virtuoso skill is yoked to a visionary and deeply historical sensibility influenced by 17th century masters including Francisco Goya, Albrecht Dürer and Jan van Eyck, as well as religious painters, particularly Heironymus Bosch.
ArtScene: Southern California's Top Ten Exhibition Picks for 2010 ArtScene 2011
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A macaque's fur in an early 19th-century image by a Chinese artist is rendered in such detail that your eye gets lost in its softness - a trait associated more with Jan van Eyck oils than the lowly watercolor.
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No wonder, then, the newly married couple painted by Jan van Eyck in 1434 invested in a bulls-eye convex mirror, living as they did in the sun-deprived city of Bruges.
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