The Play of Realism, Second Updated and Expanded Edition
by
Craig Harbison
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The surviving work of Flemish painter Jan van Eyck (c. 1395–1441) consists of a series of painstakingly detailed oil paintings of astonishing verisimilitude. Most explanations of the meanings behind these paintings have been grounded in a disguised religious symbolism that critics have insisted...