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van Eyck
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van Eyck [væn ˈaɪk]
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(Biographies / van Eyck, Jan (death date: 1441) M, Flemish, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter) Jan (jɑn). died 1441, Flemish painter; founder of the Flemish school of painting. His most famous work is the altarpiece The Adoration of the Lamb, in Ghent, in which he may have been assisted by his brother Hubert (ˈhyːbərt), died ?1426
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Noun1.van Eyck - Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and who pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441)van Eyck - 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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Finally, both chapter 4, "The Senses of Painterly Strength," and the epilogue examine "intervisual moments" (166) in several paintings by Van Eyck, Van der Weyden, and Petrus Christus, which Rothstein argues reflect a new artistic self-consciousness both resulting from and leading to a rise in the social and intellectual status of artists.
Far less probing is Michael Rohlmann's study of the citation of Flemish landscape motifs in Florentine Quattrocento painting though it does include a serviceable list of Florentine quotations after five paintings by van Eyck, van der Weyden, and Memling.
 
 
 
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