Van Eyck

Author : Till-Holger Borchert,Jan Dumolyn
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500023457

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Van Eyck by Till-Holger Borchert,Jan Dumolyn Pdf

This stunning compilation of the work of Jan van Eyck, the master Flemish painter, is being published to coincide with a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition in Ghent. Flemish painter Jan van Eyck (1390–1441) towered above his contemporaries. With his unprecedented technique, scientific knowledge, and unparalleled powers of observation, Van Eyck lifted oil painting to previously unknown heights and helped determine the course of Western art. In 2020, the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent will host the largest ever exhibition of Van Eyck’s work. Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution includes artwork by Van Eyck, several pieces from his studio, and international masterpieces from the late Middle Ages while making the world of Van Eyck more tangible than ever. This tie-in exhibition catalog unravels some of the myths that surround Van Eyck and his techniques, while showing his complete oeuvre and influence in a new perspective. Including essays by leading experts from around the world, Van Eyck will prove to be an indispensable resource for Van Eyck fans and scholars alike.

Author : Craig Harbison
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art, Flemish
ISBN : 0948462795

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Jan Van Eyck by Craig Harbison Pdf

Jan van Eyck's surviving work comprises a series of painstakingly detailed oil paintings of astonishing verisimilitude. In a fascinating recovery of the neglected human dimension that is clearly present in these works, Craig Harbison interrogates the personal histories of the worldly participants of such masterpieces as the Virgin and Child with George van der Paele, the Arnolfini Double Portrait and the Virgin and Child with Nicolas Rolin. With the aid of abundant visual evidence in color and in black and white, Harbison reveals how van Eyck presented his contemporaries with a more subtle and complex view of the value of appearances as a route to understanding the meaning of life. "I found this an enthralling study" The Sunday Telegraph "A fascinating investigation into the nature of the great pioneer's clients ... some fine photo details" Art Review"

Author : Maximiliaan Martens,Annick Born
Publisher : in Detail
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9493039234

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Van Eyck in Detail by Maximiliaan Martens,Annick Born Pdf

This fascinating book looks at the work of Flemish painter Jan van Eyck (c. 1395-1441) under a magnifying glass. Famed for his focused observation of nature, Van Eyck studied fauna and flora in their natural environment and under carefully chosen light conditions, and then achieved a breathtaking and convincing realism in his paintings. Each panel is a collection of minuscule details rendered with superb clarity from foreground to background, or at least that is the impression at first glance. As this book reveals, that is precisely where Van Eyck's exceptional talent lies: he understood that the human brain is able to supplement visual perception where necessary. Here, details from Van Eyck's paintings are organized by such themes as nature, architecture, daily life, fabrics, glass, jewelry and mirrors, and portraits. Opening with a biographical note and an introduction on the technique of oil painting on panel, the authors explain the significance of the individual details and how Van Eyck achieved his innovative artistic results. This is an unprecedented look at the work of a popular master.

Author : Craig Harbison
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Painting
ISBN : UOM:39015042496235

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Jan Van Eyck by Craig Harbison Pdf

Jan van Eyck's surviving work comprises a series of painstakingly detailed oil paintings of astonishing verisimilitude. In a fascinating recovery of the neglected human dimension that is clearly present in these works, Craig Harbison interrogates the personal histories of the worldly participants of such masterpieces as the Virgin and Child with George van der Paele, the Arnolfini Double Portrait and the Virgin and Child with Nicolas Rolin. With the aid of abundant visual evidence in color and in black and white, Harbison reveals how van Eyck presented his contemporaries with a more subtle and complex view of the value of appearances as a route to understanding the meaning of life. "I found this an enthralling study"--"The Sunday Telegraph "A fascinating investigation into the nature of the great pioneer's clients ... some fine photo details"--"Art Review Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Boudewijn Bakker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351561136

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Landscape and Religion from Van Eyck to Rembrandt by Boudewijn Bakker Pdf

Offering a corrective to the common scholarly characterization of seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting as modern, realistic and secularized, Boudewijn Bakker here explores the long history and purpose of landscape in Netherlandish painting. In Bakker's view, early Netherlandish as well as seventeenth-century Dutch painting can be understood only in the context of the intellectual climate of the day. Concentrating on landscape painting as the careful depiction of the visible world, Bakker's analysis takes in the thought of figures seldom consulted by traditional art historians, such as the fifteenth-century philosopher Dionysius the Carthusian, the sixteenth-century religious reformer John Calvin, the geographer Abraham Ortelius and the seventeenth-century poet Constantijn Huygens. Probing their conception of nature as 'the first Book of God' and art as its representation, Bakker identifies a world view that has its roots in the traditional Christian perceptions of God and creation. Landscape and Religion from Van Eyck to Rembrandt imposes a new layer of interpretation on the richly varied landscapes of the great masters. In so doing it adds a new dimension to the insights offered by modern art-historical research. Further, Bakker's explorations of early modern art and literature provide essential background for any student of European intellectual history.

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art patronage
ISBN : 9780870998706

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From Van Eyck to Bruegel by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Published in conjunction with the 1999 exhibition of the same name, ten essays and 317 illustrations (157 in color) depict northern Renaissance painting in Belgium and the Netherlands. This lovely book includes such artists as Van Eyck, Campin, Van der Weyden, David, Memling, and Bruegel, and contains commentaries on individual works, an appendix of paintings not covered in the text, artists' biographies, a glossary, a bibliography, and comparative illustrations. Oversize: 9.5x11.25"Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Noa Turel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300247572

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Living Pictures by Noa Turel Pdf

A significant new interpretation of the emergence of Western pictorial realism When Jan van Eyck (c. 1390–1441) completed the revolutionary Ghent Altarpiece in 1432, it was unprecedented in European visual culture. His novel visual strategies, including lifelike detail, not only helped make painting the defining medium of Western art, they also ushered in new ways of seeing the world. This highly original book explores Van Eyck’s pivotal work, as well as panels by Rogier van der Weyden and their followers, to understand how viewers came to appreciate a world depicted in two dimensions. Through careful examination of primary documents, Noa Turel reveals that paintings were consistently described as au vif: made not “from life” but “into life.” Animation, not representation, drove Van Eyck and his contemporaries. Turel’s interpretation reverses the commonly held belief that these artists were inspired by the era’s burgeoning empiricism, proposing instead that their “living pictures” helped create the conditions for empiricism. Illustrated with exquisite fifteenth-century paintings, this volume asserts these works’ key role in shaping, rather than simply mirroring, the early modern world.

Author : Susan Foister,Sue Jones,Delphine Cool
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015049650610

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Investigating Jan Van Eyck by Susan Foister,Sue Jones,Delphine Cool Pdf

Essays, chiefly delivered at the Jan van Eyck Symposium, held at the National Gallery, 13-14 March 1998.

Author : Robert McCarter
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300153965

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Aldo Van Eyck by Robert McCarter Pdf

Robert McCarter provides a comprehensive study of Aldo van Eyck's 50-year career, guiding readers through the architect's buildings and unrealised projects, with a focus on the interior spatial experience as well as the design and construction processes. He investigates how van Eyck's writings and lectures convey the importance of architecture in the everyday lives of people around the world and throughout history, and by presenting the architect's design work together with the principles on which it was founded, illuminates van Eyck's ethical interpretation of architecture's place in the world.

Author : Alfred Acres
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789147612

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Jan van Eyck within His Art by Alfred Acres Pdf

A new assessment of the inventive and influential artist Jan van Eyck. Jan van Eyck (1390–1441) was one of the most inventive and influential artists in the entire European tradition. The realism of his paintings continues to astound observers more than six centuries on, even though our world is saturated by high-resolution images. However, viewers today are as like to be absorbed by Van Eyck’s personality as his realism. While he sometimes directly painted himself into his works, he also suggested his presence through an array of inscriptions, signatures, and even a personal motto. Incorporating a wealth of new research and recent discoveries within a fresh exploration of the paintings themselves, this book reveals how profoundly Jan van Eyck transformed the very idea of what an artist could be.

Author : Barbara von Barghahn
Publisher : Pindar Press
Page : 887 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781915837042

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Jan van Eyck and Portugal's 'Illustrious Generation' by Barbara von Barghahn Pdf

This book investigates Jan Van Eyck's patronage by the Crown of Portugal and his role as diplomat-painter for the Duchy of Burgundy following his first voyage to Lisbon in 1428-1429, when he painted two portraits of Infanta Isabella, who became the third wife of Philip the Good in 1430. New portrait identifications are provided for the Ghent Altarpiece (1432) and its iconographical prototype, the lost Fountain of Life. These altarpieces are analysed with regard to King Joao I's conquest of Ceuta, achieved by his sons, who were hailed as an "illustrious generation." Strong family ties between the dynastic houses of Avis and Lancaster explain Lusitania's sustained fascination with Arthurian lore and the Grail quest. Several chapters of this book are overlaid with a chivalric veneer. A second "secret mission" to Portugal in 1437 by Jan van Eyck is postulated and this diplomatic visit is related to Prince Henry the Navigator's expedition to Tangier and King Duarte's attempts to forge an alliance with Alfonso V of Aragon. Late Eyckian commissions are reviewed in the light of this ill-fated crusade and additional new portraits are identified. The most significant artist of Renaissance Flanders appears to have been patronized as much by the House of Avis as by the Duchy of Burgundy. Barbara von Barghahn is Professor of Art History at George Washington University and a specialist in the art history of Portugal, Spain, and their colonial dominions, as well as Flanders. In 1993, she was conferred O Grao Comendador in the Portuguese Order of Prince Henry the Navigator. She has spent nearly a decade completing research about Jan van Eyck's diplomatic visits to the Iberian Peninsula.

Author : Francis Strauven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architects
ISBN : UOM:39015043773970

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Aldo Van Eyck by Francis Strauven Pdf

This is a monograph on the Dutch architect van Eyck, who regarded the concept of relativity as the foundation of 20th-century culture. It includes an examination of his ideas, his role in the Cobra movement, Team 10 and "De 8 en Opbouw", and a close look at his projects and

Author : Peter Schmidt,Jan van Eyck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015055852050

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The Ghent Altarpiece by Peter Schmidt,Jan van Eyck Pdf

Author : Rudolf Preimesberger
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892369645

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Paragons and Paragone by Rudolf Preimesberger Pdf

"Preimesberger's incisive and erudite analysis of social history, biography, rhetoric, art theory, wordplay, and history illuminates these works anew, thus affording a modern audience a better understanding of the subtleties of their composition and meaning."--Jacket.

Author : Elisabeth Dhanens
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Altarpieces
ISBN : UOM:39076005299149

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Van Eyck: the Ghent Altarpiece by Elisabeth Dhanens Pdf