VAN EYCK

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VAN EYCK	Visual Arts Network for the Exchange of Cultural Knowledge (conference paper)

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As Clark revered Van Eyck as a founding father both of representational portraiture and landscape art, he would have recognised the Eyckian character of Freud's early style.

FREUD IN FLANDERS: Lucian Freud's debt to early Netherlandish painting has rarely been acknowledged--but several of his early works took their lead from Van Eyck

Durante las cuatro semanas que residio alli, Jan Van Eyck se dedico a "paindre bien au vif la figure de ma dite dame l'infante Elizabeth" (pintar al natural la figura de mi senora la infanta Isabel).

Jan van Eyck y Espana. Un viaje y una obra

There are lovely things in Cruise's book, which supports the Birmingham exhibition beautifully, and there are some fine portraits in Yale's equally satisfying study of the beautiful and prestigious work, created by geniuses, such as Van Eyck, which show how far The Netherlands had gone along the road to artistic glory by the time the 15th century began to flower.

Painting a picture of humanity; Richard Edmonds looks at two books that provide different artistic interpretations of the human form

The first naturalistic drawings of the Moon: Jan Van Eyck and the art of observation', J.

A note on the first telescopic depiction of the moon by Thomas Harriot (1560-1621)

The motto ("as I can"), though literary in origin, is associated normally with Jan van Eyck.

Ein spdtgotischer Maler aus Schwaben in Salzburg

Through the new portal, internet users can freely and without charge access a range of classic works - recordings and manuscripts by Mozart and Beethoven, paintings by Jan Van Eyck, The Divine Comedy' by Dante, historical documents such as the British Magna Carta - as well as more recent resources, such as pictures of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

EUROPEANA OVERWHELMED

Desde su tan personal como admirable y ya antologica serie de los Amolfini, caso sui generis si tomamos en cuenta que la mayor parte de las obras que componen esta amplia suma de variaciones fueron concebidas por el artista sin entonces todavia haber tenido contacto con el famoso cuadro de Van Eyck que se encuentra en la National Gallery, el desarrollo estetico del pintor Benjamin Dominguez (Jimenez, Chihuahua, 1942) constituye uno de los ejemplos de evolucion y de busqueda mas atractivos dentro del contexto de la plastica mexicana de las mas recientes tres decadas.

El universo plastico de Benjamin Dominguez: obra multifocal

Too bad for Kleihues, Ungers, Botta and Aldo van Eyck, no doubt all stemming from the Kahnian source, but now complete victims of associational sourcery.

Myopic doyen

It was organised by the widow of painter Jan van Eyck in 1446 to raise money for orphans in Bruges.

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The second chapter, on Van Eyck's Van der Paele Virgin and Child, claims that painterly reflexivity allows Van Eyck to push the limits of visual and spiritual representation.

Bret L. Rothstein. Sight and Spirituality in Early Netherlandish Painting

In the case of Coleman's third exemplar, van Eyck, the importance of his travels and his interest in anthropology are stressed.

Nathaniel Coleman. Utopias and Architecture

In closing, Verhofstadt said Belgium is known for its cyclists (like Eddy Merckx and Tom Boonen) and painters (like Van Eyck, Rubens and Matisse).

Belgium offers a sweet tax deal for U.S. investors: eager to position itself as the "gateway to Europe" for U.S. and other global businesses, Belgium has instituted sweeping economic reforms in efforts to challenge such rivals as Ireland and Switzerland as countries of choice for corporate relocations