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Arnolfini Portrait

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The Arnolfini Portrait (or The Arnolfini Wedding, The Arnolfini Marriage, the Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife, or other titles) is a 1434 oil painting on oak panel by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck. [1]

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  1. 109 relations: Affenpinscher, Amber Butchart, Annunciation in Christian art, Battle of Vitoria, Battle of Waterloo, BBC Four, Bruges, Brussels, Burgundian Netherlands, Burgundy, Carlton House, Carola Hicks, Chandelier, Charles II of Spain, Cherry, Craig Harbison, Curved mirror, Damask, Diego de Guevara, Diego Velázquez, Donatello, Early Netherlandish painting, Engagement, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Eye of Providence, Fecundity, Flanders, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Gender role, Genre painting, George IV, Ghent Altarpiece, Giovanni Arnolfini, Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, Griffon Bruxellois, Hope, Hubert van Eyck, Illusionism (art), Immaculate Conception, Infrared, Italy, James Hay (British Army officer), Jan van Eyck, Janna Levin, Joseph Archer Crowe, Joseph Bonaparte, Lap dog, Las Meninas, Léal Souvenir, ... Expand index (59 more) »

  2. 1434 paintings
  3. Paintings formerly in the Spanish royal collection
  4. Paintings of couples
  5. Portraits by Jan van Eyck
  6. Works about weddings

Affenpinscher

The Affenpinscher is a German breed of small toy dog of Pinscher type.

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Amber Butchart

Amber Jane Butchart is a British fashion historian and writer.

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Annunciation in Christian art

The Annunciation has been one of the most frequent subjects of Christian art.

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Battle of Vitoria

At the Battle of Vitoria (21 June 1813), a British, Portuguese and Spanish army under the Marquess of Wellington broke the French army under King Joseph Bonaparte and Marshal Jean-Baptiste Jourdan near Vitoria in Spain, eventually leading to victory in the Peninsular War.

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Battle of Waterloo

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium), marking the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

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BBC Four

BBC Four is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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Bruges

Bruges (Brugge; Brügge) is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.

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Burgundian Netherlands

In the history of the Low Countries, the Burgundian Netherlands (Burgundiae Belgicae, Pays-Bas bourguignons., Bourgondische Nederlanden, Burgundesch Nidderlanden, Bas Payis borguignons) or the Burgundian Age is the period between 1384 and 1482, during which a growing part of the Low Countries was ruled by the Dukes of Burgundy.

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Burgundy

Burgundy (Bourgogne; Burgundian: bourguignon) is a historical territory and former administrative region and province of east-central France.

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Carlton House

Carlton House, sometimes Carlton Palace, was a mansion in Westminster, best known as the town residence of King George IV, particularly during the regency era and his time as prince regent.

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Carola Hicks

Carola Hicks (7 November 1941 – 23 June 2010) was a British art historian.

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Chandelier

A chandelier is an ornamental lighting device, typically with spreading branched supports for multiple lights, designed to be hung from the ceiling.

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Charles II of Spain

Charles II of Spain (6 November 1661 – 1 November 1700), also known as the Bewitched (El Hechizado), was King of Spain from 1665 to 1700.

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Cherry

A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit).

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Craig Harbison

Craig S. Harbison (April 19, 1944 – May 17, 2018) was an American art historian specialising in 15th and 16th-century Flemish and Northern Renaissance painting.

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Curved mirror

A curved mirror is a mirror with a curved reflecting surface.

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Damask

Damask (/ˈdæməsk/; Arabic: دمشق) is a woven, reversible patterned fabric.

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Diego de Guevara

Don Diego de Guevara (1450 – 1520) was a Spanish courtier and ambassador who served four, possibly five, successive Dukes of Burgundy, spanning the Valois and Habsburg dynasties, mostly in the Low Countries.

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Diego Velázquez

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Knight of the Order of Santiago (baptized 6 June 15996 August 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age.

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Donatello

Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (– 13 December 1466), known mononymously as Donatello, was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance period.

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Early Netherlandish painting

Early Netherlandish painting is the body of work by artists active in the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands during the 15th- and 16th-century Northern Renaissance period, once known as the Flemish Primitives.

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Engagement

An engagement or betrothal is the period of time between the declaration of acceptance of a marriage proposal and the marriage itself (which is typically but not always commenced with a wedding).

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Ernst Gombrich

Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (30 March 1909 – 3 November 2001) was an Austrian-born art historian who, after settling in England in 1936, became a naturalised British citizen in 1947 and spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom.

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Erwin Panofsky

Erwin Panofsky (March 30, 1892, in Hannover – March 14, 1968, in Princeton, New Jersey) was a German-Jewish art historian, whose academic career was pursued mostly in the U.S. after the rise of the Nazi regime.

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Eye of Providence

The Eye of Providence or All-Seeing Eye is a symbol depicting an eye, often enclosed in a triangle and surrounded by a ray of light or a halo, intended to represent Providence, as the eye watches over the workers of mankind.

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Fecundity

Fecundity is defined in two ways; in human demography, it is the potential for reproduction of a recorded population as opposed to a sole organism, while in population biology, it is considered similar to fertility, the natural capability to produce offspring, measured by the number of gametes (eggs), seed set, or asexual propagules.

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Flanders

Flanders (Dutch: Vlaanderen) is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium.

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Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

The (Painting Gallery) is an art museum in Berlin, Germany, and the museum where the main selection of paintings belonging to the Berlin State Museums (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) is displayed.

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Gender role

A gender role, or sex role, is a set of socially accepted behaviors and attitudes deemed appropriate or desirable for individuals based on their sex.

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Genre painting

Genre painting (or petit genre), a form of genre art, depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities.

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George IV

George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 29 January 1820 until his death in 1830.

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Ghent Altarpiece

The Ghent Altarpiece, also called the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (De aanbidding van het Lam Gods), is a very large and complex 15th-century polyptych altarpiece in St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium. Arnolfini Portrait and Ghent Altarpiece are Gothic paintings.

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Giovanni Arnolfini

Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini (– after 1452) was a merchant from Lucca, a city in Tuscany, Italy.

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Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle

Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (22 January 1819 – 31 October 1897) was an Italian writer and art critic, best known as part of "Crowe and Cavalcaselle", for the many works in English on art history he co-authored with Joseph Archer Crowe.

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Griffon Bruxellois

The Griffon Bruxellois or Brussels Griffon is a breed of toy dog, named for their city of origin of Brussels, Belgium.

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Hope

Hope is an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcomes with respect to events and circumstances in one's life or the world at large.

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Hubert van Eyck

Hubert van Eyck or Huybrecht van Eyck (– 18 September 1426) was an Early Netherlandish painter and older brother of Jan van Eyck, as well as Lambert and Margareta, also painters.

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Illusionism (art)

Illusionism in art history means either the artistic tradition in which artists create a work of art that appears to share the physical space with the viewer"Illusionism," Grove Art Online.

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Immaculate Conception

The Immaculate Conception is the belief that the Virgin Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception.

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Infrared

Infrared (IR; sometimes called infrared light) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than that of visible light but shorter than microwaves.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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James Hay (British Army officer)

Lieutenant-General James Hay (1780 – 25 February 1854) was a British Army officer who saw service during the Peninsular War and the Waterloo Campaign.

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Jan van Eyck

Jan van Eyck (– 9 July 1441) was a Flemish painter active in Bruges who was one of the early innovators of what became known as Early Netherlandish painting, and one of the most significant representatives of Early Northern Renaissance art.

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Janna Levin

Janna J. Levin (born 1967) is an American theoretical cosmologist and a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College.

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Joseph Archer Crowe

Sir Joseph Archer Crowe (25 October 1825, London – 6 September 1896, Gamburg an der Tauber, today Werbach, Germany) was an English journalist, consular official and art historian, whose volumes of the History of Painting in Italy, co-written with the Italian critic Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (1819–1897), stand at the beginning of disciplined modern art history writing in English, being based on chronologies of individual artists' development and the connoisseurship of identifying artist's individual manners or "hands".

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Joseph Bonaparte

Joseph-Napoléon Bonaparte (born Giuseppe di Buonaparte,; Ghjuseppe Napulione Bonaparte; José Napoleón Bonaparte; 7 January 176828 July 1844) was a French statesman, lawyer, diplomat and older brother of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Lap dog

A lap dog or lapdog is a dog that is both small enough to be held in the arms or lie comfortably on a person's lap and temperamentally predisposed to doing so.

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Las Meninas

paren) is a 1656 painting in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Baroque. It has become one of the most widely analyzed works in Western painting for the way its complex and enigmatic composition raises questions about reality and illusion, and for the uncertain relationship it creates between the viewer and the figures depicted. Arnolfini Portrait and Las Meninas are dogs in art and mirrors in art.

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Léal Souvenir

Léal Souvenir (also known as Timotheus or Portrait of a Man) is a small oil-on-oak panel portrait by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, dated 1432. Arnolfini Portrait and Léal Souvenir are 15th-century portraits and portraits by Jan van Eyck.

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Lorne Campbell (art historian)

Ian Lorne Campbell (born 1946) is a Scottish art historian and curator.

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Love

Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure.

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Loyalty

Loyalty is a devotion to a country, philosophy, group, or person.

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Lucca

Lucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea.

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Lust

Lust is an intense desire for something.

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Madonna of Chancellor Rolin

The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin is an oil painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, dating from around 1435.

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Madrid

Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain.

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Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy

Margaret of Austria (Margarete; Marguerite; Margaretha; Margarita; 10 January 1480 – 1 December 1530) was Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1507 to 1515 and again from 1519 until her death in 1530.

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Margaret the Virgin

Margaret, known as Margaret of Antioch in the West, and as Saint Marina the Great Martyr (Ἁγία Μαρίνα) in the East, is celebrated as a saint on 20 July in Western Christianity, on 30th of July (Julian calendar) by the Eastern Orthodox Church, and on Epip 23 and Hathor 23 in the Coptic Orthodox Church.

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Martha

Martha (Aramaic: מָרְתָא‎) is a biblical figure described in the Gospels of Luke and John.

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Mary of Hungary (governor of the Netherlands)

Mary of Austria (15 September 1505 – 18 October 1558), also known as Mary of Hungary, was queen of Hungary and Bohemia as the wife of King Louis II, and was later governor of the Habsburg Netherlands.

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Masaccio

Masaccio (December 21, 1401 – summer 1428), born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, was a Florentine artist who is regarded as the first great Italian painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance.

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Mérode Altarpiece

The Mérode Altarpiece (or Annunciation Triptych) is an oil on oak panel triptych, now in The Cloisters, in New York City.

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Mechelen

Mechelen (Malines; historically known as Mechlin in EnglishMechelen has been known in English as Mechlin, from where the adjective Mechlinian is derived. This name may still be used, especially in a traditional or historical context. The city's French name, Malines, had also been used in English in the past (in the 19th and 20th centuries); however, this has largely been abandoned.

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Michael Sittow

Michael Sittow (1469 – 1525), also known as Master Michiel, Michel Sittow, Michiel, Miguel, and several other variants, was a painter from Tallinn (Reval), Livonia who was trained in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting.

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Miniver

Miniver, an unspotted white fur edged with grey, derives originally from the winter coat of the red squirrel.

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Morganatic marriage

Morganatic marriage, sometimes called a left-handed marriage, is a marriage between people of unequal social rank, which in the context of royalty or other inherited title prevents the principal's position or privileges being passed to the spouse, or any children born of the marriage.

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Museo del Prado

The Museo del Prado, officially known as Museo Nacional del Prado, is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid.

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The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England.

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The National Gallery of Art is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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Non-Euclidean geometry

In mathematics, non-Euclidean geometry consists of two geometries based on axioms closely related to those that specify Euclidean geometry.

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Notre-Dame de Paris

Notre-Dame de Paris (meaning "Our Lady of Paris"), referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité (an island in the River Seine), in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Oak

An oak is a hardwood tree or shrub in the genus Quercus of the beech family.

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Oil paint

Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil.

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Oil painting

Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder.

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Orange (fruit)

An orange, also called sweet orange when it is desired to distinguish it from the bitter orange (Citrus × aurantium), is the fruit of a tree in the family Rutaceae.

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Oriental carpets in Renaissance painting

Carpets of Middle-Eastern origin, either from Anatolia, Persia, Armenia, Levant, the Mamluk state of Egypt or Northern Africa, were used as decorative features in Western European paintings from the 14th century onwards. More depictions of Oriental carpets in Renaissance painting survive than actual carpets contemporary with these paintings.

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Ovid

Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus.

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Panel painting

A panel painting is a painting made on a flat panel of wood, either a single piece or a number of pieces joined together.

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Passion of Jesus

The Passion (from Latin patior, "to suffer, bear, endure") is the short final period before the death of Jesus, described in the four canonical gospels.

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Patten (shoe)

Pattens, also known by other names, are protective overshoes that were worn in Europe from the Middle Ages until the early 20th century.

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Pentimento

In painting, a; from the verb, meaning 'to repent'; plural pentimenti) is "the presence or emergence of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over". Sometimes the English form "pentiment" is used, especially in older sources.

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Philip II of Spain

Philip II (21 May 152713 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent (Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598.

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Polyvalency (chemistry)

In chemistry, polyvalency (or polyvalence, multivalency) is the property of molecules and larger species, such as antibodies, medical drugs, and even nanoparticles surface-functionalized with ligands, like spherical nucleic acids, that exhibit more than one supramolecular interaction.

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Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?)

Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?) (also Portrait of a Man in a Turban or Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban) is an oil painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, from 1433. Arnolfini Portrait and Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?) are 15th-century portraits and portraits by Jan van Eyck.

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Post-mortem photography

Post-mortem photography is the practice of photographing the recently deceased.

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Power of attorney

A power of attorney (POA) or letter of attorney is a written authorization to represent or act on another's behalf in private affairs (which may be financial or regarding health and welfare), business, or some other legal matter.

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Provenance

Provenance is the chronology of the ownership, custody or location of a historical object.

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Pulley

A pulley is a wheel on an axle or shaft enabling a taut cable or belt passing over the wheel to move and change direction, or transfer power between itself and a shaft.

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Quartz

Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide).

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Robert Campin

Robert Campin (c. 1375 – 26 April 1444), now usually identified with the Master of Flémalle (earlier the Master of the Merode Triptych, before the discovery of three other similar panels), was a master painter who, along with Jan van Eyck, initiated the development of Early Netherlandish painting, a key development in the early Northern Renaissance.

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Royal Alcázar of Madrid

The Royal Alcázar of Madrid (Spanish: Real Alcázar de Madrid) was a fortress located at the site of today's Royal Palace of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

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Royal Palace of Madrid

The Royal Palace of Madrid (Palacio Real de Madrid) is the official residence of the Spanish royal family at the city of Madrid, although now used only for state ceremonies.

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Sable

The sable (Martes zibellina) is a species of marten, a small omnivorous mammal primarily inhabiting the forest environments of Russia, from the Ural Mountains throughout Siberia, and northern Mongolia.

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Smarthistory

Smarthistory is a free resource for the study of art history created by art historians Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

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Stoat

The stoat (Mustela erminea), also known as the Eurasian ermine or ermine, is a species of mustelid native to Eurasia and the northern regions of North America.

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Straw plaiting

Straw plaiting is a method of manufacturing textiles by braiding straw and the industry that surrounds the craft of producing these straw manufactures.

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Tabard

A tabard is a type of short coat that was commonly worn by men during the late Middle Ages and early modern period in Europe.

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Tapestry

Tapestry is a form of textile art, traditionally woven by hand on a loom.

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Tempera

Tempera, also known as egg tempera, is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder medium, usually glutinous material such as egg yolk.

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The Burlington Magazine

The Burlington Magazine is a monthly publication that covers the fine and decorative arts of all periods.

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The Story of Art

The Story of Art, by E. H. Gombrich, is a survey of the history of art from ancient times to the modern era.

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Thomas Lawrence

Sir Thomas Lawrence (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was an English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy.

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Trompe-l'œil

paren) is an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface. Trompe l'œil, which is most often associated with painting, tricks the viewer into perceiving painted objects or spaces as real. Forced perspective is a related illusion in architecture.

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Underdrawing

Underdrawing is a preparatory drawing done on a painting ground before paint is applied, for example, an imprimatura or an underpainting.

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Virtue

A virtue (virtus) is a trait of excellence, including traits that may be moral, social, or intellectual.

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Wet-on-wet

Wet-on-wet, or alla prima (Italian, meaning at first attempt), direct painting or au premier coup, is a painting technique in which layers of wet paint are applied to previously administered layers of wet paint.

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William H. Weale

William Henry James Weale (8 March 1832 – 26 April 1917) was a British art historian who lived and worked most of his life in Bruges and was one of the first to research the Early Netherlandish painting (then better known as "Flemish Primitives") extensively.

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See also

1434 paintings

Paintings formerly in the Spanish royal collection

Paintings of couples

Portraits by Jan van Eyck

Works about weddings

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnolfini_Portrait

Also known as Arnolfini Betrothal, Arnolfini Double Portrait, Arnolfini Marriage, Arnolfini Wedding, Arnolfini Wedding Portrait, Arnolfini.marriage, Arnolofini Portrait, Betrothal Of The Arnolfini, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride, Giovonni Arnolfini and His Bride, Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife, Portret van Giovanni Arnolfini en Zijn, Portret van Giovanni Arnolfini en Zijn Vrouw, The Arnolfini Double Portrait, The Arnolfini Marriage, The Arnolfini Portrait, The Arnolfini Wedding, The Wedding of Arnolfini.

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