Jan Van Eyck (1380 -1441)

The most illustrious painter of the primitive Flemish school, Jan van Eyck was born at Maeseyck between 1370 and 1380, and died at Bruges in 1440. Jan lived almost continuously at Bruges, at the court of Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy

Jan van Eyck painted "Madonna and the Child Enthroned" (now hosted at the Royal Gallery in Dresden), and he is considered as the true father of the Flemmish school of painting.

He had a brother who also was a famous painter, Hubert van Eyck, also born at Maeseyck (1366-14632). Together with him, Jan van Eyck is the discoverer of the oil painting technique; before them, the most popular technique was the use of tempera.

Their sister, Margaret van Eyck was a miniaturist paintress.

Jan Van Eyck "Annunciation" (1434) National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.	Jan Van Eyck "The Man in a Red Turban" (1433) National Gallery, London	Jan Van Eyck "The Ghent Altarpiece" (1432) Church of St. Bavo, Ghent	Jan Van Eyck "Madonna and Child Enthroned" (1434) Bruges
Jan Van Eyck "Madonna in the Church" (1425) Staatliche Museen, Berlin	Jan Van Eyck "The Arnolfini Portrait" (1434) National Gallery, London	Jan Van Eyck "The Virgin of Chancellor Rolin" (1435) Louvre, Paris	Jan Van Eyck "The Ghent Altarpiece: Eve" (1432) Church of St. Bavo, Ghent
Jan Van Eyck "St Barbara" (1437) Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp	Jan Van Eyck "The Ghent Altarpiece: Singing Angels" (1432) Church of St. Bavo, Ghent	Jan Van Eyck "The Ghent Altarpiece: God Almighty" (1432) Church of St. Bavo, Ghent	Jan Van Eyck "Last Judgment" (1420-1425) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Jan Van Eyck "The Portrait of Jan de Leeuw" (1436) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna	Jan Van Eyck "The Ghent Altarpiece: Angel of the Annunciation" (1432) Church of St. Bavo, Ghent	Jan Van Eyck "The Ghent Altarpiece: Virgin Mary" (1432) Church of St. Bavo, Ghent	Jan Van Eyck "Madonna and Child at the Fountain" (1439) Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
Jan Van Eyck "The Arnolfini Portrait (detail)" (1434) National Gallery, London	Jan Van Eyck "The Ghent Altarpiece: Cumaean Sibyl" (1432) Church of St. Bavo, Ghent	Jan Van Eyck "Diptych" (1420-1425) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	Jan Van Eyck "Portrait of a Man with Carnation" (1435) Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Jan Van Eyck "Stigmatization of St Francis" (1428-1429) Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia	Jan Van Eyck "The Ghent Altarpiece: The Adoration of the Lamb" (1432) Church of St. Bavo, Ghent	Jan Van Eyck "St Jerome" (1442) Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit	Jan Van Eyck "Small Triptych" (1437) Gemaldegalerie, Dresden
Jan Van Eyck "Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini" (1435) Staatliche Museen, Berlin	Jan Van Eyck "Madonna with the Child Reading" (1433) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne	Jan Van Eyck "Annunciation" (1436) Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid	Jan Van Eyck "The Ghent Altarpiece (wings closed)" (1432) Church of St. Bavo, Ghent
Jan Van Eyck "The Ghent Altarpiece: Adam" (1432) Church of St. Bavo, Ghent	Jan Van Eyck "Portrait of Cardinal Niccolo Albergati" (1435) Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden	Jan Van Eyck "Portrait of Christ" (1440) Groeninge Museum, Bruges	Jan Van Eyck "Portrait of a Goldsmith (Man with Ring)" (1430) Romanian National Museum, Bucharest
Jan Van Eyck "The Ghent Altarpiece: The Holy Hermits" (1432) Church of St. Bavo, Ghent	Jan Van Eyck "The Ghent Altarpiece: The Just Judges" (1432) Church of St. Bavo, Ghent	Jan Van Eyck "The Ghent Altarpiece: Adoration of the Lamb (detail)" (1432) Church of St. Bavo, Ghent	Jan Van Eyck "The Ghent Altarpiece: St John the Baptist" (1432) Church of St. Bavo, Ghent
Jan Van Eyck "Portrait of Margareta van Eyck" (1439) Groeninge Museum, Bruges	Jan Van Eyck "Annunciation" (1436) Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid	Jan Van Eyck "Portrait of Baudouin de Lannoy" (1435) Staatliche Museen, Berlin	Jan Van Eyck "The Ghent Altarpiece: Erythraean Sibyl" (1432) Church of St. Bavo, Ghent

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