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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)
Eyck, Jan van Eyck
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In his study of Flemish painting, for example, Hippolyte Fierens-Gevaert stressed the unity of Belgian art across the centuries; his statement that Hubert and Jan van Eyck were "des Belges d'avant la lettre, des Belges suivant la formule moderne"(34) brings to mind Pirenne's theory of Latin-Germanic fusion, even though Fierens-Gevaert placed greater emphasis on the Latin side of this formula.
Flemish versus Netherlandish: a discourse of nationalism by Deam, Lisa / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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