Jan van Eyck within His Art

✍ Scribed by Alfred Acres

• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 239
• Series: Renaissance Lives
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A new assessment of the inventive and influential artist Jan van Eyck.
 
Jan van Eyck (1390–1441) was one of the most inventive and influential artists in the entire European tradition. The realism of his paintings continues to astound observers more than six centuries on, even though our world is saturated by high-resolution images. However, viewers today are as like to be absorbed by Van Eyck’s personality as his realism. While he sometimes directly painted himself into his works, he also suggested his presence through an array of inscriptions, signatures, and even a personal motto. Incorporating a wealth of new research and recent discoveries within a fresh exploration of the paintings themselves, this book reveals how profoundly Jan van Eyck transformed the very idea of what an artist could be.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction: As I Can
1. A Career
2. The Painter at Work
3. Hubert, Jan and the Ghent Altarpiece
4. Annunciations and Other Encounters
5. In the Company of the Virgin and Child
6. Situating Saints
7. Portraiture and Presence
8. Epilogue: Another Mirror
Chronology
References
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index