Jan van Eyck
Flemish Primitives / Early Netherlandish
Middle Ages & Gothic
Flanders
c. 1390–1441
Jan van Eyck was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges and court painter to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. He is universally revered as the supreme pioneer of the Northern Renaissance and the master who perfected the oil painting medium.
Masterworks by Jan van Eyck (2)
The National Galleryc. 1434
St. Bavo's Cathedralc. 1432
