Jan Van Eyck
Jan van Eyck was born in the North Eastern section of Holland in a town called Maaseyck in 1385. His earliest experience with art came from working in his older brother's workshop. The workshop was located in the city of Liege, which was a great art center in the 14th century . Jan Van Eyck was prominent as a painter, a courtier and diplomat. From 1422 to 1424 he was in the service of John of Bavaria, Count of Holland. He later became court painter and varlet de chambre to Phillip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, for who he went to Portugal and Spain in 1428. After Phillip's marriage to Isabella of Portugal in 1430, Jan Van Eyck settled in Bruges and married. He died on July ninth 1441. He was credited with the invention of oil painting and although this may not be provable, Van Eyck brought the new medium of oil and varnish to a high degree of awareness. Several signed and dated paintings by him survive and he is known as the greatest artist of the Early Netherlandish School. Perhaps his most famous artwork is the Ghent Altarpiece. The Ghe
Seidel, Linda Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait, Press Syndicate of the University of With his fare endowments for painting. Gheorghe Szekely, Van Eyck. Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1971. P7. The following epitaph on a column in the Church of St. Donatus, Bruges, explains Van Eycks worth as an artist. With tears let us morn for the irretrievable loss ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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