Les van Eyck : maîtres constructeurs du Temple de la Sagesse / Alexis Curvers ; chapitres inédits assemblés et présentés par A.M. Garant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curvers, Alexis, 1906-1992.

Contributor:

Garant, A. M.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Eyck, Jan van, 1390-1440. Madonna with Chancellor Rolin.

Eyck, Jan van.

Eyck, Hubert van, 1366-1426.

Eyck, Hubert van.

Physical Description:

193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Liège : CEFAL, [2009]

Summary:

This posthumous work develops the hypothesis of Jean Lejeune who saw in the painting of the Madonna and Child with Chancellor Rolin a panorama of Liège and a portrait of its prince, Jean de Bavière. Van Eyck was in effect in his service before working for Philippe le Bon. He was beginning his career in Liège. Rather than a rich chancellor we might see here a monarch thanking heaven for allowing him to suppress one of a number of populist Liège revolts. Curvers develops this thesis and discovers a symbolism in which the brothers Van Eyck created subtle correspondances between Liège and the promised land.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9782871302735

2871302731

OCLC:

505750001