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Article: The lustrous world of Jan van Eyck. (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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- April 13, 1998
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Seeing the two 570-year-old oil paintings side by side at the Philadelphia Museum of Art's exhibition "Recognizing Van Eyck" is an amazing visual experience. They are identical scenes of "St. Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata"--except that one is about five inches square while the other is about one foot square. They're both by Flemish master Jan van Eyck (1385-1441), who was once thought to have invented oil painting. (He didn't, but he was the first to make it really sing with realism). The pictures, painted around 1430, were probably last seen next to each other half a millennium ago. But their reunion--the tiny "St. Francis" belongs to the Philadelphia Museum, ...
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Article: Jan van Eyck: The Play of Realism.
Renaissance Quarterly;
June 22, 1994 ;
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... ... interrogates the realistic effect of Jan van Eyck's panels, arguing that his imagery ... in the words of Nicolas Rolin, one of Van Eyck's foremost clients, are transacted ... experience, then the religious meaning of Van Eyck's images derives, as Harbison puts ...
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