JAN ARNOLFINI AND JEANNE DE CHENANY.
BY JAN VAN EYCK.
Bell's Miniature Series of Painters
THE BROTHERS
VAN EYCK
BY
P. G. KONODY
LONDON
GEORGE BELL & SONS
1907
TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE TIMES OF THE BROTHERS VAN EYCK
LIST OF WORKS, CATALOGUED ACCORDING TO LOCALITY
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
JAN ARNOLFINI AND JEANNE DE CHENANY
(National Gallery) - - - Frontispiece
By Jan van Eyck.
THE ADORATION OF THE LAMB
(Cathedral of St. Bavo, Ghent)
By Hubert and Jan van Eyck.
THE ENTHRONEMENT OF THOMAS À BECKET
(Chatsworth)
By Jan van Eyck.
THE MAN WITH THE PINKS
(Berlin Museum)
By Jan van Eyck.
ST. BARBARA
(Antwerp Museum)
By Jan van Eyck.
THE JUST JUDGES, AND CHRIST'S WARRIORS
(Berlin Museum)
By Hubert and Jan van Eyck.
PORTRAIT OF TIMOTHY
(National Gallery)
By Jan van Eyck.
THE VAN DER PAELE ALTAR-PIECE
(Bruges Museum)
By Jan van Eyck.
THE TIMES OF THE BROTHERS VAN EYCK
The unusual activity which during the latterhalf of the fourteenth and the first half ofthe fifteenth centuries throbbed throughout thewhole of the Netherlands forms one of the mostinteresting and surprising studies of nationalprogress that history has furnished.
Geographically and politically, in her artsand in her industries, the country was affectedby changes both radical and lasting. Someyears before the period which embraces thelife of the subjects of this biographical sketch,the German Ocean had invaded the northernterritory of the Netherlands, and haddisorganised a Parliament and divided a people.At the beginning of the thirteenth century overthe whole of that low-lying and marshy tractbetween K