Jan van Eyck: God is in the Detail, a series of 3

Famed for inventing oil paint (although we now know this not to be true) Jan van Eyck used this medium to his advantage when painting his minutely decorated paintings. Jan van Eyck worked in Flanders, part of modern day Belgium, at a time of great artistic advances called the Northern Renaissance. Inspired by local Gothic traditions and illuminated manuscripts his paintings are filled with the most delightful details. Often not even visible to onlooker’s eyes, one wonders if he painted some for it for his own enjoyment. 

Join Mariska for this journey looking at some of the most wonderful works by Jan van Eyck and his extraordinary eye for life’s details. We will take a deep dive each week into some of his masterpieces:

·      The Ghent Altar Piece

·      The Arnolfini Portrait and other portraits

·      The Met's Annunciation and other religious paintings

delivered by Mariska Beekenkamp-Wladimiroff