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Jan Van Eyck, a Flemish Painter using Arab Optics?
Introduction
« Perspective in XVth-century Flemish religious painting ». At first glance, this title may seem surprising. While the genius of fifteenth-century Flemish painters is universally attributed to their mastery of drying oil and their intricate sense of detail, their spatial geometry as such is usually identified as the very counter-example of the "right perspective".
Disdained by Michelangelo and his faithful friend Vasari, the Flemish « primitives » would never have overcome the medieval, archaic and empirical model. For the classical "narritive", still in force today, stipulates that only « Renaissance » perspective, obeying the canon of « linear », "mathematical" perspective, is the only « right », and the "scientific" one.
According to the same narrative, it was the research carried out around by the Duomo architect Filippo Brunelleschi (), superficially mentioned by Antonio Tuccio di Manetti some 60 years later, which supposedly enabled Leon Battista Alberti (), proclaiming himself Brunelleschi's intellectual heir, to invent « perspective ».
It's true, however, that at the end of the XIVth century, certain paintings by Melchior Broederlam (c. ) and others by R
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Why Van Eyck: An Optical Illusion is beyond doubt ‘a once-in-a-lifetime experience’
This blockbuster exhibition of the Netherlandish Old Master’s works is like nothing ever likely to be staged again. Happily, via MFA Ghent’s Facebook page, a live online tour with its curator is being offered at 6pm GMT (1pm in New York) on 8 April
From left: Jan van Eyck (c. ), The Annunciation, c. (detail). National Gallery of Art, Washington, Andrew W. Mellon Collection. Jan van Eyck (c. ), Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon, c. Muzeul National Brukenthal, Sibiu (Romania)
Intricately detailed and ablaze with brilliant colour, the mesmerising paintings of early 15th-century Flemish master Jan van Eyck (?) are among the most groundbreaking works in the history of Western art.
‘His extraordinary handling of oil paint allowed him to express the acuteness of his observations as no one had achieved before,’ declares Dr Susan Foister, Deputy Director of the National Gallery in London.
In February the largest Jan van Eyck exhibition ever staged, Van Eyck: An Optical Illusion, opened at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent. Described by the curators as a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ exhibition, it features more than half of the app