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List of works by Jan van Eyck

List of works by Jan van Eyck

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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. Though the use of oil paint preceded Van Eyck by many centuries, his virtuosic handling and manipulation of oil paint, use of glazes, wet-on-wet and other techniques was such that Giorgio Vasari started the myth that Van Eyck had invented oil painting[1]

About twenty surviving paintings are confidently attributed to him, as well as the Ghent Altarpiece (co-attributed to his brother Hubert) and some of the illuminated miniatures of the Turin-Milan Hours. All works are dated between 1432 and 1439. Ten are dated and signed with a variation of his motto ALS ICH KAN (As I (Eyck) can), a pun on his name, which he typically painted in Greek characters.

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References

  1. Borchert (2008), 92–94
  2. Atkins, Christopher D. M. "Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata by Jan van Eyck (cat. 314)". The John G. Johnson Collection: A History and Selected Works. A Philadelphia Museum of Art free digital publication.
  3. "The Crucifixion ca. 1440 Jan van Eyck". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 29 February 2020.

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