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The Arnolfini Portrait | JAN VAN EYCK

$1,800.00 CAD
$1,800.00 CAD
Contrary to first impressions, the female figure in this painting is not pregnant, but holding up her dress fabric in a way that makes her appear to be, as was the fashion of the time. This time was 1434, and the painting depicts Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife. What makes this painting really so extraordinary is that date, and the fact that Northern Renaissance painter Jan van Eyck has created such an exceptionally realistic setting for the couple, bathed in remarkably natural light, in a period where art and the real world were battling to come together.