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Famous works. View all 71 artworks. Jan van Eyck. Featured. View all 9 items. Jan van Eyck lived in the XIV – XV cent., a remarkable figure of Flemish Northern Renaissance. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- Flemish
- Maaseik, Netherlands
This is a list of works by the Early Netherlandish artist Jan van Eyck. He was not a prolific artist; only twenty paintings attributed to him, although a great many others are believed destroyed or lost. Van Eyck was the first major European artist to utilize oil painting.
ImageTitleDateCurrent Locationc. 1420-32St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent3.4 m x 5.2 m, open view 3.4 m x 2.23 m, ...c. 1430Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu22.5 cm x 16.6 cmc. 1430-32Sabauda Gallery, Turin29.3 cm x 33.4 cm1430-3212.7 cm x 14.6 cmJan van Eyck (/ v æ n ˈ aɪ k / van EYEK, Dutch: [ˈjɑɱ vɑn ˈɛik]; c. before 1390 – 9 July 1441) was a Flemish painter active in Bruges who was one of the early innovators of what became known as Early Netherlandish painting, and one of the most significant representatives of Early Northern Renaissance art.
- Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata. Jan van Eyck is known as an innovator of veristic realism, not only for his meticulous portraiture but also for his stunning panoramic landscapes that appear to recede far into the distance.
- Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon. This small oil painting provides an early example of the elements typical in van Eyck's secular portraits: the innovative three-quarters pose against a dark, flat background, a strong sense of light highlighting the identifying characteristics of the sitter's features, and the artist's amazing ability to capture the various textures of different fabrics.
- The Ghent Altarpiece. The Ghent Altarpiece is a monumental polyptych painting centered on themes of Redemption and Salvation. As the most stolen artwork in history, it is also a work with a troubled history.
- Man in a Red Turban. Van Eyck was among the first artists to produce a substantial body of secular portraiture of aristocratic and middle-class patrons in Northern Europe, a genre formerly reserved for the ruling members of society.
Jan van Eyck was Netherlandish painter who perfected the newly developed technique of oil painting. His naturalistic panel paintings, mostly portraits and religious subjects, include the Ghent Altarpiece (1432), Portrait of a Man (1433), and the Arnolfini Portrait (1434).
Van Eyck appears to have painted many religious commissions and portraits of Burgundian courtiers, local nobles, churchmen and merchants. A small group of his paintings survive with dates from 1432 onwards. One of his most famous works is the 'Arnolfini Portrait', signed and dated 1434.
Jan van Eyck is the most famous member of a family of painters traditionally believed to have originated from the town of Maaseik, in the diocese of Liège. The work of the Van Eycks, epitomized in the Ghent Altarpiece, brought an unprecedented realism to the themes and figures of late medieval art.
