Jan van Eyck
Arnolfini Wedding 1434 oil
and tempera on oak 82x60cm
Jan van Eyck
Arnolfini Wedding 1434 oil
and tempera on oak 82x60cm
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oil and tempera on oak 82x60cm |
In the early '90s Jacques Paviot, a French naval historian found something that challenged previously accepted beliefs about the painting. While doing unrelated research, he stumbled across a reference to what appears to have been what was generally accepted to be happening in the painting: Arnolfini's wedding to Giovanna Cenami. But the document Paviot found placed the wedding in 1447, 13 years after the date on the double portrait and six years after van Eyck's death. |
Greek, Paestum Italy Basilica 550BCE
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