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Jan van Eyck (c.1390-1441) was a Flemish painter of the early northern Renaissance, one of the first to work in oil.

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His paintings are technically brilliant and sumptuously rich in detail and colour. Little is known of his brother Hubert van Eyck (died in 1426), who is supposed to have begun the huge and complex altarpiece in St. Bavo's cathedral, Ghent, The Adoration of the Mystical Lamb, completed by January 1432.

Jan van Eyck is known to have worked in The Hague 142 read more...

Tags: oil painting, technique, colour

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