Arnolfini Portrait
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The Arnolfini Portrait is an oil painting on oak panel dated 1434 by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck. It is also known as The Arnolfini Wedding, The Arnolfini Marriage, The Arnolfini Double Portrait or the Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife, among other titles. The painting is a small full-length double portrait, which is believed to represent the Italian merchant Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife, presumably in their home in the Flemish city of Bruges. It is considered one of the most original and complex paintings in Western art; according to Ernst Gombrich "in its own way it was as new and revolutionary as Donatello's or Masaccio's work in Italy. A simple corner of the real world had suddenly been fixed on to a panel as if by magic ... For the first time in history the artist became the perfect eye-witness in the truest sense of the term". Signed and dated by van Eyck in 1434, it is, with the Ghent Altarpiece by the same artist and his brother Hubert, the oldest very famous panel painting to have been executed in oils rather than in tempera. The painting was bought by the National Gallery in London in 1842.
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| The Arnolfini Portrait on the National Gallery web... The Arnolfini Portrait on the National Gallery website www.nationalgallery.org.uk/.../work?workNumber=NG186 - Web |
| Mystery of the Marriage Mystery of the Marriage www.open2.net/historyandthearts/arts/mystery_synopsis.html - Web |
| Erwin Panofsky and The Arnolfini Portrait Erwin Panofsky and The Arnolfini Portrait www.mnemosyne.org/iconography/practice/arnolfini-1 - Web |
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| Blog essay on theories around the painting by John... Blog essay on theories around the painting by John Haber www.haberarts.com/trueart.htm - Web |
| Press interview with art historian Craig Harbison Press interview with art historian Craig Harbison www.umass.edu/chronicle/archives/00/04-14/harbison28.html - Web |
| Not «The Arnolfini Portrait» but «The Van Eyck Wed... Not «The Arnolfini Portrait» but «The Van Eyck Wedding» - News about a Critical Essay, proposing the painting is a self-portrait of the painter with his spouse Margaretha www.loschermo.it/articolo.php?idart=25082 - Web |
