Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) Homepage Rota do Românico. Jan van Eyck | ART HISTORY SPOT. 1. Life and work. (i) Training and early works in The Hague, to 1425. According to a 16th-century Ghent tradition, represented by van Vaernewijck and Lucas d’Heere, Jan trained with his brother Hubert. Pietro Summonte’s assertion (1524) that he began work as an illuminator is supported by the fine technique and small scale of most of Jan’s works, by manuscript precedents for certain of his motifs, and by his payment in 1439 for initials in a book (untraced) for Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.
Jan is first documented in The Hague in August 1422 as an established artist with an assistant and the title of ‘Master’, working for John III, Count of Holland (John of Bavaria; reg 1419–25), who evidently discovered the artist while he was bishop (1389–1417) of the principality of Liège. Jan became the court’s official painter and was paid, with a second assistant when the work increased in 1423, continuously, probably until the count’s death in January 1425.
(iv) Other lost works. 2. 3. 4. 5. Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife 1434 - Reproduction - www.jan-van-eyck.org - Large. Site Index. WikiArt.org - the encyclopedia of painting.
Armor (Gusoku) with Foot Guards. Ct_1440.jpg (JPEG Image, 1440x900 pixels) Museus portugueses. Europeana. Versailles - Galerie des glaces. Sistine Chapel.
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