Tip: move over the painting to use the lens.
Ghent Altarpiece
Hubert van Eyck · 1432
- Artist
- Hubert van Eyck
- Date
- 1432
- Where to see it
- Solly Collection
Solly Collection · Public domain · image via Wikimedia Commons · see it at the museum ↗
Slow Look
- The whole picture Let your eyes wander. Where do they want to rest?
- The light Find the brightest spot. What is it showing you?
- The edges Look at what is half cut off at the borders.
- One small detail Choose one tiny thing and stay with it for a while.
- The whole picture again Step back. Has it changed for you?
About Hubert van Eyck
Hubert van Eyck was an Early Netherlandish painter and older brother of the renowned Jan van Eyck, as well as Lambert and Margareta, also painters. The absence of any single work that he can clearly be said to have completed continues to make an assessment of his achievement highly uncertain, although for centuries he had the reputation of being an outstanding founding artist of Early Netherlandish painting.
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