As we come to the last day of May, the month traditionally dedicated to Our Lady, and as we celebrate the Feast of the ...

Throughout the history of art, great masters have captured not only beauty in their works, but also secrets. Some did it to ...

In his 1550 volume Lives of the Artists, painter and architect Giorgio Vasari snuck in praise for the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck in his chapter on the Italian painter Antonello da Messina.

Apparently, God didn’t understand his entitlement ... is depicted on the Ghent Altarpiece designed by Hubert and Jan van Eyck in the 1420s. It is found in St. Bavo’s Cathedral in that Belgian ...

Jan van Eyck, one of the most famous artists of the Renaissance period, and often called the pioneer of the Northern Renaissance was an exceptional painter who served under a King and a Duke in ...

Since May of this year, the top, last seven panels, representing heaven are being tackled: John the Baptist, the Virgin Mary, God, angels singing and playing ... were not done by the surviving brother ...

God is holy, and we cannot enter his presence ... “Thy will be done.” Jan van Eyck, “The Last Judgment,” ca. 1430-1440, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ...

Now a fairytale destination that should be on everyone’s bucket lists, Bruges was once a bustling commercial centre and the ...

The Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program—better known as the "Monuments Men"—would eventually liberate Rembrandt's Night Watch, parts of Hubert and Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece ...

It wasn’t until the 1400s that this changed, when Italy came under the spell of humanism – a system of thought centred on people rather than God ... such as Jan van Eyck’s arresting ...

FLEMISH brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck’s masterpiece, the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb ... The upper register is dominated by a central panel featuring God the Father (sometimes debated to be Christ ...