Jan van Eyck: The Play of Realism

By Craig Harbison

Book Overview

Jan van Eyck's surviving work comprises a series of painstakingly detailed oil paintings of astonishing verisimilitude. This title interrogates the personal histories of the worldly participants of such masterpieces as the Virgin and Child with George van der Paele, the Arnolfini Double Portrait and the Virgin and Child with Nicolas Rolin.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0948462183
• ISBN13: 9780948462184
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher