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- It forms a full-length double portrait, believed to depict the Italian merchant Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife, presumably in their residence at the Flemish city of Bruges.
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Dec 6, 2020 · However, in her essay titled “The Arnolfini double portrait: a simple solution,” art historian Margaret Koster suggests that it is instead a memoriam portrait for the wife of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini who had died a year prior to the painting’s signature.
- Adrienne Howell
For the next century most art historians accepted that the painting was a double portrait of Giovanni di Arrigo Arnolfini and his wife Jeanne Cenami, but a chance discovery published in 1997 established that they were married in 1447, thirteen years after the date on the painting and six years after van Eyck's death.
This enigmatic double portrait, commonly known as The Arnolfini Portrait, is set in the bedchamber of a Flemish house and is unique to Netherlandish art. The couple depicted are usually identified as Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini, a wealthy merchant from Lucca living in Bruges , and his wife, Giovanna Cenami, although this is questioned by some ...
May 12, 2024 · In this double portrait, the artist’s detailed work doesn’t lie only in his technique, but also in every choice made for the composition – everything is carefully curated, from the architecture of the room to the colors used. Jan van Eyck, Portrait of Giovanni (?)
The double portrait remained in Flanders (see the Provenance section in that article), which suggests that Giovanni died there. He was referred to as Hernoul-le-Fin in the first inventory record of the double portrait.
That van Eyck painted two portraits of Arnolfini has led to speculation he was a friend of the artist. For many years the two works were not associated, and the identity of the sitters was unknown. Often the London double portrait was taken as a portrait of the artist and his wife, Margaret.
Oct 13, 2013 · No one knows for sure who the couple are but the best guess is that it is Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini a merchant from Bruges and his bride Costanza Trenta who he married in 1426. By the time this portrait was painted however, in 1434, Constanza had died.
