Portrait of Jan van Eyck, a key figure of the so-called Flemish Primitives. It portrays an Italian couple living in the Netherlands. He was a prominent merchant. Full of symbolism alluding to marital fidelity and the young wife’s state of good hope. It is an icon of Western painting
Collection: Images
Project: 4. Family, daily life and social inequality in Europe., 8. Women and the change for gender equality in Europe.
Chronology: XV
Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate
Link: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jan-van-eyck-the-arnolfini-portrait
Resource type: Image
Format: Oil on panel (82 x 60 cm)
Source: National Gallery of London (Londres)
Language: English
Date: 1434
Owner: Raimundo A. Rodríguez Pérez (Modernalia)
Identifier: NG 186
Copyright: National Gallery of London (Londres)
Abstract: Power elites
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