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Jan Van Eyck: Drawings and Paintings (Annotated)

出版	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018-10-30
主題	Art / European
ISBN	17296212959781729621295
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=K9_tvgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This book with introduction and annotations written by Raya Yotova contains reproductions of drawings and paintings by Jan van Eyck.Jan van Eyck (b. 1390 -1441) is one of the most important painters of Early Northern Renaissance art. A small number of existing documentations of his premature days point to that he was born about 1380-1390, most probable in Maaseik. He took service in Hague about 1422, when he was previously appointed a master painter with practicum subordinates, as painter and Valet de chambre with John III the Pitiless, monarch of Holland and Hainaut. Jan van Eyck was then utilized in Lille as court painter to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy after John's death in 1425, until he shifted to Bruges in 1429 where he lived until his death. He was extremely regarded by Philip and undertook a numeral of diplomatic missions in foreign countries, as well as to Lisbon in 1428 to search the opportunity of a wedding agreement between the duke and Isabella of Portugal.About twenty existing oil paintings are assertively prescribed to Jan van Eyck, as well as the Ghent Altarpiece and the illuminated miniatures of the Turin-Milan Hours, all created among 1432 - 1439. 10 art works are signed and dated and also with a variants of his maxim "As I, Eyck, can", a clever remark on his first name written in antic Greek characters.The artist created together worldly and sacred topic subject, together with altarpieces, solitary-board religious figures and made to order portrayals. His art contains single oil panels, diptychs, triptychs, and polyptych boards. He was healthy rewarded by Philip, who sought that Jan van Eyck was protected economically and had creative autonomy so that he could create "on every occasion he satisfied". His art style comes from the International Gothic approach, but Van Eyck quickly concealed it, in part throughout a greater accent on realism and even naturalism. The painter accomplished a new height of ability through his maturity in the employ of oil paint. He was extremely prominent, and his methods and manner were accepted and sophisticated by the Early Netherlands artists.