Jan van Eyck Art Documentary Clip High Art of the Low Countries

Jan van Eyck Art
Documentary Clip
High Art of the Low Countries
The Ghent Alterpiece oil painting.

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Andrew Graham-Dixon shows how the art of Renaissance Flanders evolved from the craft of precious tapestries within the Duchy of Burgundy into a leading painting school in its own right. Starting his journey at the magnificent altarpiece of Ghent Cathedral created by the Van Eyck brothers, Andrew explains their groundbreaking innovation in oil painting and marvels at how the colours they obtained can still remain so vibrant today.
Andrew describes how, in the early Renaissance, the most urgent preoccupation was not the advancement of learning, humanist or otherwise, but the Last Judgment. People believed they were living in the end of days; a subject popular with preachers and artists and intensely realised in swarming microscopic detail by Hieronymus Bosch.
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/jan-van-eyck
http://www.jan-van-eyck.org/
http://artintheblood.typepad.com/art_history_today/jan-van-eyck/
http://www.mallgalleries.org.uk/learning/resources/history-oils

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