Jan van Eyck

Southern Netherlands · 1390–1441

Early Netherlandish paintingNorthern Renaissance

Such was his legacy, that he has been called "the inventor of oil-painting" by Vasari, Ernst Gombrich, and others, although this claim is now considered an oversimplification.

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Jan van Eyck · National Gallery of Art

Who Jan van Eyck was

Jan van Eyck was an early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges who was one of the early innovators of what became known as early Netherlandish painting, and one of the supreme figures of the Early Northern Renaissance. Such was his legacy, that he has been called "the inventor of oil-painting" by Vasari, Ernst Gombrich, and others, although this claim is now considered an oversimplification.

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