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  1. BornSometime around 1380 or 1390 · Maaseik, Prince-Bishopric of Liège, Holy Roman Empire
    EducationRobert Campin (disputed)
    Known forpainting
    How Jan van Eyck Revolutionized Art with Oils
    How Jan van Eyck Revolutionized Art with Oils
    Jan van Eyck was a 15th-century Flemish painter who is considered one of the founders of Early Netherlandish art and one of the greatest masters of oil painting.
    Life and career

    Little is known of Jan van Eyck's early life and neither the date nor place of his birth is documented. The first extant record of his life comes from the court of John of Bavaria at The Hague where, between 1422 and 1424, paym… See more

    Works

    Jan van Eyck produced paintings for private clients in addition to his work at the court. Foremost among these is the Ghent Altarpiece painted for the merchant, financier and politician Jodocus Vijdts and his wife Elis… See more

    Style

    Van Eyck incorporated a wide variety of iconographic elements, often conveying what he saw as a co-existence of the spiritual and material worlds. The iconography was embedded in the work unobtrusive… See more

    Workshop, unfinished or lost works

    Members of his workshop completed works based on his designs in the years after his death in the summer of 1441. This was not unusual; the widow of a master would often carry on the business after his death. It is thought tha… See more

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