As many requirements a medieval court painter had to meet - in addition to making portraits, these included designing items of clothing or painting signs - there was often little room for creative artistic development according to his own ideas. Portraits of rulers always had to be advantageous, and wall paintings dealt with a narrowly defined subject area, especially religious motifs. Jan van Eyck, who worked at the court of Philip III of Burgundy from 1425, was also faced with these limitations.
Van Eyck, however, used his position at court to further develop his art and he became one of the most important representatives of Old Dutch painting. He knew how to lend his works a naturalistic, lively atmosphere, which ensured that the illustrations were more realistic than was previously known from art. To achieve this, van Eyck experimented a lot with colours and techniques. It was he who made oil painting popular. The more intense colours of his works also contributed to the fact that the viewer was able to get a closer look at the work of art and that he was sometimes called the "king of painters" by contemporaries. Van Eyck's most famous work is the winged altar in St. Bavo Cathedral in Ghent, which was completed in 1435.
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 1434 - (MeisterDrucke-207023).jpg "The Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (The Arnolfini Marriage) by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait) by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Adoration of the Mystic Lamb by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Annunciation Diptych by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Dresden Altarpiece Triptych by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Saint Barbara by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment (part of a triptych) by Jan van Eyck")
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 c1435 (panel) - (MeisterDrucke-54967).jpg "The Rolin Madonna (detail) by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, The Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Ghent Altarpiece. Adoration of the Mystic Lamb: The Archangel Gabriel by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait) by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Ghent Altarpiece. Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, 1432 by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Arnolfini Marriage (detail of mirror) by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Lucca Madonna by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Man Crossing Log Bridge over Torrent by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Adoration of the Lamb from the Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Three Marys at the Tomb of Christ by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Portrait of a man with a blue chaperon (Man with Ring) by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Portrait of Jan de Leeuw by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Madonna of Chancellor Rolin by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Saint Jerome in His Study by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Ghent Altarpiece. Adoration of the Mystic Lamb: Music-making Angels by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Three Marys at the Tomb by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-563407).jpg "St. Jerome in his Study by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Madonna and Child at the Fountain by Jan van Eyck")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1583489).jpg "Saint Barbara, c.1427 by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Ghent Altarpiece. Adoration of the Mystic Lamb: Erythraean Sibyl by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, Diptych by Jan van Eyck")
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_c1429_(oil_on_wood)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1077252).jpg "Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon (Man with Ring) by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Cardinal Niccolo Albergati, Papal envoy in the Spanish Netherlands by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Ghent Altarpiece. Adoration of the Mystic Lamb: Virgin Annunciate, 1432 by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Ghent Altarpiece. Adoration of the Mystic Lamb: Virgin Mary Enthroned by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Ghent Altarpiece. Adoration of the Mystic Lamb: God Almighty by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434, 1904 by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata, ca 1430 by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Portrait of Marco Barbarigo, c.1449-50 by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Portrait of Jacoba of Bavaria by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Annunciation Diptych, Left Panel, 1434-1435 by Jan van Eyck")
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_Um_1429_-_(MeisterDrucke-804800).jpg "Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon (Man with the Ring). Around 1429 by Jan van Eyck")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1569954).jpg "Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?) by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Ghent Altarpiece. Adoration of the Mystic Lamb: Adam and Eve by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Arnolfini Marriage (detail) by Jan van Eyck")
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 1434 (detail of 1765) - (MeisterDrucke-60506).jpg "The Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami (The Arnolfini Marriage) (detail) by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Triptych of Mary and Child, St. Michael, and St. Catherine by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Ghent Altarpiece. Adoration of the Mystic Lamb: Cain Kills Abel by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Portrait of Cardinal Niccolò Albergati by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Ghent Altarpiece. Adoration of the Mystic Lamb: Arched Window with a View by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "An angel crowning the Virgin (detail) by Jan van Eyck")
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Galerie_-_(MeisterDrucke-1377807).jpg "Annunciation from the Collection of the Boisserée Brothers (series) by Johann Nepomuk Strixner")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-908567).jpg "The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Virgin and Child with Saints Donatian and George and Canon Joris van der Paele (detail) by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Ghent Altarpiece. Adoration of the Mystic Lamb: Singing Angels by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Ghent Altarpiece. Adoration of the Mystic Lamb: The Holy Hermits and the Holy Pilgrims by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "So-called Portrait of Jan van Eyck by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Ghent Altarpiece. Adoration of the Mystic Lamb: John the Baptist and John the Evangelist by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Arnolfini Marriage (detail) by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Cardinal Niccolo Albergati by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "(Detail) of the Virgin and Child with Canon Joris van der Paele by Jan van Eyck")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1660596).jpg "Court society in front of a Burgundian castle by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Virgin and Child, with Saints and Donor by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Ghent Altarpiece. Adoration of the Mystic Lamb: Cumaean Sibyl by Jan van Eyck")
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_wa_-_(MeisterDrucke-1002149).jpg "Landscape (detail) by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Calvary by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Crucifixion, The Last Judgment by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Ghent Altarpiece. Adoration of the Mystic Lamb: The Sacrifice of Cain and Abel, 1432 by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Left Panel of Diptych by Jan van Eyck")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-908546).jpg "The Annunciation by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Madonna in the Church by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Virgin of Chancellor Rolin by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Portrait of Margareta van Eyck (detail) by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "The Annunciation by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Saint Barbara by Cornelis van Noorde")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1663651).jpg "Annunciation by Jan van Eyck")
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_Pe_-_(MeisterDrucke-994874).jpg "Portrait of Baudouin de Lannoy, Lord of Molembais, called the Begue by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "St Luke Drawing the Virgin and Child by Jan van Eyck")
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_1433_-_(MeisterDrucke-804607).jpg "Portrait of a Man (Self-Portrait?). 1433 by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Madonna Adored by the Canonicus Van der Paele by Jan van Eyck")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-696616).jpg "The Ghent Altarpiece (open) by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man Léal Souvenir by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Triptych of Mary and Child, St. Michael, and St. Catherine by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Portrait of Cardinal Nicholaes Albergati by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Madonna at the Fountain by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Portrait of Cardinal Niccolò Albergati by Jan van Eyck")
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.jpg "Baudouin de Lannoy by Jan van Eyck")
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