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THE BIG REVIEW | Van Eyck. An Optical Revolution – Museum voor Schone Kunsten (MSK Gent), Ghent

I think one’s ability to clearly differentiate the individual hairs on Adam’s legs is testament enough to the unprecedented opportunity to view the exterior panels of the Ghent Altarpiece as Hubert and Jan van Eyck once did.Shown in pairs, the 8 restored panels have been scattered across 4 rooms in the 13-room Van Eyck: AnContinue reading “THE BIG REVIEW | Van Eyck. An Optical Revolution – Museum voor Schone Kunsten (MSK Gent), Ghent”

A case of ‘mirror mania’ – Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites

When the National Gallery acquired Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait (1434) in 1842, it was the only pristine example of early Netherlandish painting from this period in their collection. Van Eyck had also been erroneously credited as the inventor of oil painting, a sixteenth-century myth invented by Giorgio Vasari in Italy and perpetuated by KarelContinue reading “A case of ‘mirror mania’ – Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites”