Investigating Jan van Eyck / edited by Susan Foister, Sue Jones and Delphine Cool.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eyck, Jan van, 1390-1440.

Foister, Susan, 1954-

Cool, Delphine

National Gallery (Great Britain)

J. Fithian Tatem Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eyck, Jan van, 1390-1440--Congresses.

Eyck, Jan van.

Eyck, Jan van, 1390-1440--Criticism and interpretation.

Eyck, Jan van, 1390-1440.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

ix, 251 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, 2000.

Summary:

Essays, chiefly delivered at the Jan van Eyck Symposium, held at the National Gallery, 13-14 March 1998.

Contents:

"The king of painters' / Catherine Reynolds

The Arnolfini double portrait / Lorne Campbell

Jan van Eyck's Dresden triptych / Uta Neidhardt and Christoph Schölzel

The Saint Barbara / Rachel Billinge, Hélène Verougstraete and Roger van Schoute

The Virgin and Chancellor Rolin and the Office of Matins / Philippe Lorentz

Assessing the evolution of van Eyck's iconographythrough technical study of the Washington Annunciation, I / E. Melanie Gifford

Assessing the evolution of van Eyck's iconography through technical study of the Washington Annunciation, II : new light on the development of van Eyck's architectural narrative / Carol J. Purtle

Jan van Eyck's handwriting / A.L. Dierick

Examining Jan van Eyck's underdrawing / Rachel Billinge

Van Eyck's technique : the myth and the reality, I / Ashok Roy

Van Eyck's technique : the myth and the reality, II / Raymond White

Frames and supports of some Eyckian paintings / Hélène Veroogstraet and Roger van Schoute

Sculpture and the van Eycks : some Mosan parallels / John Steyaert

Dress in van Eyck's paintings / Margaret Scott

Silk textiles in the paintings of Jan van Eyck / Lisa Monnas

Anselm Adornes and his daughters : owners of two paintings of Saint Francis by Jan van Eyck? / oël Geirnaert

Jan van Eyck's painting in Italy / Paula Nuttal

An approach to looking at Eyckian drawings / Stephanie Buck

The use of workshop drawings by Jan van Eyck and his followers / Sue Jones.

Notes:

Chiefly papers presented at the Jan Van Eyck Symposium held at the National Gallery, Mar. 13-14, 1998 to coincide with the London showing of the exhibition 'Recognizing van Eyck' organized by the Museo civico Turin and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the J. Fithian Tatem Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

2503507328

9782503507323

OCLC:

46662302