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... JAN VAN EYCK Among all the masters who outdid each other in efforts to enhance the new naturalism in the early fifteenth century , Jan van Eyck ( c . 1390- 1441 ) stood out in the eyes of his contemporaries ; about 1456 the Italian ...
... JAN VAN EYCK Among all the masters who outdid each other in efforts to enhance the new naturalism in the early fifteenth century , Jan van Eyck ( c . 1390- 1441 ) stood out in the eyes of his contemporaries ; about 1456 the Italian ...
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... van Eyck has encompassed the drama of Salvation in images of another world containing all the beauties of this one ... JAN VAN EYCK . Madonna of Chancellor Rolin . c . 1433-34 . Oil on panel , 26 × 24 % " ( 66 x 62 cm ) . Musée du Louvre ...
... van Eyck has encompassed the drama of Salvation in images of another world containing all the beauties of this one ... JAN VAN EYCK . Madonna of Chancellor Rolin . c . 1433-34 . Oil on panel , 26 × 24 % " ( 66 x 62 cm ) . Musée du Louvre ...
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... Jan van Eyck's most celebrated works is the Wedding Portrait ( fig . 21-17 ) , which Erwin Panofsky in an epoch - making study claimed represents the Sacra- ment of Marriage ( which , like Baptism , need not be dispensed by a priest ) ...
... Jan van Eyck's most celebrated works is the Wedding Portrait ( fig . 21-17 ) , which Erwin Panofsky in an epoch - making study claimed represents the Sacra- ment of Marriage ( which , like Baptism , need not be dispensed by a priest ) ...
Contents
PREFACE | 8 |
CHAPTER THIRTYTHREE Impressionism 91819 | 19 |
CHAPTER THIRTYFOUR PostImpressionism 94041 | 41 |
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