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Jan van Eyck

Jan van Eyck. Mr. C Dylan Caballes Room 3. Jan van Eyck’s Life. He was born in around 1390 in Massiek, Belgium. Nobody really knows the exactly when or where he was born.

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Jan van Eyck

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  1. Jan van Eyck Mr. C Dylan Caballes Room 3

  2. Jan van Eyck’s Life • He was born in around 1390 in Massiek, Belgium. • Nobody really knows the exactly when or where he was born. • People today believe Jan had brothers named Hubert and Lambert van Eyck because they came from the same town. Hubert is also a painter. • Jan married Margaret around 1432. They had two children. • Jan died in 1441.

  3. Jan and Hubert van Eyck’s Painting • Hubert taught Jan to draw, paint and master colors. • The Ghent Altarpiece is a large painting inside a chapel that was started by Hubert in 1420 and completed by Jan in 1432.

  4. Jan van Eyck’s Employment • Before 1421, Jan mostly worked with his brother Hubert. • In 1422 and 1424, Jan worked as a court painter for John of Bavaria, the count of Hainaut-Holland. John died in 1425. • Between 1425 and 1441, he was appointed by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy to be the court painter. Jan worked for Philip for the rest of his life.

  5. Most Famous Work • Jan’s most famous painting is the The Arnolfini Portrait. • The painting depicts the Italian merchant Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife, in their home in the Flemish city of Bruges. • The painting is famous because it is considered one of the most original and complex paintings in Western art at that time.

  6. The Arnolfini Portrait • The Arnolfini Portrait was painted using oil instead of tempera. • Oil paint is slow-drying and it can be shiny. This allows the painter to have more time to add more details to the painting. • The painting is very realistic like a picture. There are lots of details about the people and also the room.

  7. Jan van Eyck’s Painting Style • Van Eyck was very interested in the effects of light in his paintings. • Using oil allowed Jan to paint objects that shows reflection. The brass chandelier in the Arnolfini portrait shows this.

  8. Jan van Eyck’s Painting Style • Van Eyck shows extreme detail in paintings. • In the Arnolfini painting, the mirror in the background shows the reflection of the couple and their guests. • The mirror frame has round symbols showing Jesus. • Over the mirror, Jan signed the painting and dated it 1434. Painters at this time did not do this.

  9. Other Jan van Eyck’s Paintings • Virgin in a Church (1425) • Annunciation (1428) • Tymotheos (1432) • Ince Hall Madonna (1433) • Man in a Red Turban (1433) • Madonna with Chancellor Nicholas Rolin • Madonna of Canon George van der Paele with Saints Donatien and George (1434) • Lucca Madonna (1436) • Virgin at the Fountain (1439)

  10. The Painting I Chose to Replicate • Man in a Red Turban • This painting is believed to be a self-portrait of Jan van Eyck. • I chose this painting because it is one of his famous paintings.

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