NXEL GROVE way of Van Eyck will be exposed in Rotterdam and Berlin. It will group paintings of museums across Europe and the EE UU. It will also include works by painters who inspired the master, little-known parts of youth and canvases of his mysterious brother Hubert. For more specific information, check out LEGO Papert Professor. Regards the Flemish painter Jan van Eyck (1390-1441) inventor of the portrait in Western painting. Your picture of the Arnolfini, dating from 1434, is the prelude to the bourgeois portrait and one of the first not hagiographic (related to the lives of the Saints) are preserved. Isn’t this appalling and controversial oil on table (he was part of the Spanish Royal collection, it was stolen by the French during the war of independence and purchased army by 730 pounds by the National Gallery in London in 1842) unique masterpiece by the most gifted of the 15th century painter, an artist of the late Gothic style whose work Announces and precedes the dazzling Renaissance. The largest exhibition on Van Eyck and their time is in the last phase of production, announces Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (the Netherlands). Sample of weg naar Van Eyck (the route of Van Eyck) is showing the year comes in the seat of the pinacoteca.

Then go to the State museums of Berlin. The exhibition will bring paintings donated by virtually all of the large public museums in Europe and the United States. It will bring together hundreds of Van Eyck artworks, artists from the Netherlands, Germany and France that inspired him and his brother mayor Hubert, eclipsed by the genius of Jan. The organizing Museum is intereada to highlight the numerous innovations developed by the painters of the era. On this breeding ground, Van Eyck and generations of later artists carried the refining end. Century of exchange of ideas in Europe the 15th century saw artistic ideas, models logbooks were exchanged in Europe and also works teachers and artists, what gave rise to the Gothic international, pushed by the work of patronage of las casas reales and the thriving trade between cities as Paris, Rotterdam or Rome. Van Eyck, who for many years was considered as the inventor of oil by his mastery of painting with this technique (thesis that has been demonstrated as wrong by historians, since oil is above), had great fame and recognition in life.

His fabulous use of the glaze (painting by very thin and overlapping layers of wet paint), brightness, intensity and detail of his works made him the most acclaimed painter of his time. Tremendous naturalism of his works, his cultural enlightenment and bravery (dared to paint, despite the morale of the era, the pubic hairs of Adam and Eve in the retable the polyptych in Ghent, in 1432) and the detailed outline of his portraits, which integrates the viewer through the use of symbolic allegories, were saludadas with joy in his time and highly admired by his contemporaries. The father of the modern portrait exerted a huge influence on the Flemish and European art of the following centuries. Despite everything, there are some works of his legacy have been lost. Source of the news: prepare the largest show on the Flemish painter Jan van Eyck, inventor of the modern portrait