Jan van Eyck
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Hubert van Eyck
Jan van Eyck, a Flemish painter who perfected the newly developed technique of oil painting in his life. His naturalistic panel paintings, mostly portraits and religious subjects, made oil painting a great success, using religious symbols to attract the eye. His masterpiece is the altarpiece in the cathedral at Ghent, the Adoration of the Lamb, completed in 1432. Hubert van Eyck is thought to be Jan’s brother, but it is known that Hubert did help with the perfection of oil painting. Hubert was not documented as a painter, but as a sculptor.
Jan and Hubert van Eyck’s birthdates where never recorded, but there work of accomplishments where well documented, but Jan has thought to be born around 1390 in the village of Maaseyck in Limbourg., in relation with his paintings. Jan van Eyck was employed from 1422-24, at the court of John of Bavaria, count of Holland, at The Hague, and in 1425 he was made court painter and valet de chambre to Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy. He became a close member of the duke’s court and undertook several secret missions for him, including a trip in 1428-29, to Spain and Portugal in connection with negotiations that resulted in the marriage of Philip of Burgundy and Isabella of Portugal. Documents show that in 1432-33 Jan bought a house in Bruges. He signed and dated a number of paintings between 1432 and 1439, all of which are painted in oil and varnished. According to documents, he was buried on July 9, 1441. Hubert died in Sept. 18, 1426 and would have never been documented if, he hadn’t worked with Jan on the Ghent altarpiece in the Church of ST. Bavo.
The Essay on Jan Van Eyck
... and varnished.According to documents, he was buried on July 9, 1441. Van Eyck has been credited traditionally with the invention of painting in oils, ... identifies the artists of the work as Hubert and Jan van Eyck. The usual interpretation is that Hubert van Eyck (d. Sept. 18, 1426) was the brother ...
Jan van Eyck has been wrongly credited with the “discovery of painting in oil”. In fact, oil painting was already created, used to paint sculptures and to glaze over tempera paintings. Jan and Hubert van Eycks’ real achievement was the development of a stable varnish that would dry at a consistent rate. This was created with linseed and nut oils, and mixed with resins. The breakthrough came when Jan or Hubert mixed the oil into the actual paints they were using, instead of the egg medium that made the tempera paint. The result was brilliance, translucence, and intensity of color as the pigment was suspended in a layer of oil that also trapped light. The flat, dull surface of tempera was transformed into a jewel-like medium, at once perfectly suited to the representation of precious metals and gems. Van Eyck’s inspired observations of light and its effects, accomplished with technical excellence through this new, transparent medium, enabled him to create a brilliant and bright kind of reality. The invention of this technique transformed the appearance of painting.
Van Eyck’s most famous and most exceptional work is one of his first, the Ghent altarpiece completed in 1432, a polyptych consisting of twenty panels in the Church of St. Bavo, Ghent. On the frame is an incomplete inscription in Latin that identifies the artists of the work as Hubert and Jan van Eyck. It has been thought that Hubert van Eyck was the brother of Jan and was a sculptor who carved the fantastic designs in the frame for the altar and also that he was the painter who began the altarpiece, which Jan then completed. The exterior of the altar shows Jodocus Vijdt, the donor, and his wife kneeling on either side of two grisaille (painted in gray to resemble statuary) representations of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist; above is an Annunciation. The brightly colored interior is dominated by a panel representing the Adoration of the Holy Lamb. Equally famous is the wedding portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife which the artist signed “Johannes de Eyck fuit hic 1434” (Jan van Eyck was here), testimony that he witnessed the ceremony. Other important paintings are the Madonna of Chancellor Rolin completed in 1434, Louvre, Paris and the Madonna of Canon van der Paele finish in 1436, Groeninge Museum, Bruges.
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the Adoration of the Lamb-The famous painting that in the Cathederal oh Ghent that Hubert and Jan van Eyck both worked on.
Polypytch-Is a form of Art where you put panels togather to make one big picture
Oil Painting-A type of paints that was perfected by the Eyck’s and used in many of there paintings.
