Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait
Jan Van Eyck (before c. 1390 – 9 July 1441) was a Flemish/Netherlandish painter active in Bruges, who was born in Maaseik, Holland. He took employment in the Hague as painter and Valet de chambre with John III the Pitiless, ruler of Holland and Hainaut in the Hague around 1422, when he was already a master painter with workshop assistants.Van Eyck painted both secular and religious subject matter, including altarpieces, single panel religious figures and commissioned portraits. And he was highly influential and his techniques and style were adopted and refined by the Early Netherlandish painters, who is often considered one of the founders of Early Netherlandish painting school and one of the most significant representatives of Northern Renaissance
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It not only represent the appearance and personality of Arnolfini couple, and also depict the decoration of the room. Their gesture represent the loyalty to each other, The husband is holding the hand of wife means he will support his wife forever, and his wife palms up to show that she will always be loyal to her husband. Luxury clothing shows the wealthy of Arnolfini couple; A candle lit in the pensile droplight may allude to the presence of the Holy Ghost or the ever-present eye of God; A pair of slipper in the corner represent marriage; A dog symbolizes loyalty, signifying the couple's desire to have a child; the white turban means chastity; The green of the woman's dress symbolizes fertility, possibly the hope of becoming a mother; Red bed shows symbolic harmonious, and it might allude to the physical act of love between the married couple.. In the 14th century, The fresh oranges is expense according to the extremely high cost of transportation. In this painting, it represents a symbol of wealthy. The beads on the wall is behalf of piety; The brush means purity. In the middle of the painting, there has a mirror hanging on the wall, framed with 10 outstanding lobate square, each of them has a small circle which draw different pictures of Jesus’ story. And The round mirror in the center is reflecting the scenery of whole
It not only represent the appearance and personality of Arnolfini couple, and also depict the decoration of the room. Their gesture represent the loyalty to each other, The husband is holding the hand of wife means he will support his wife forever, and his wife palms up to show that she will always be loyal to her husband. Luxury clothing shows the wealthy of Arnolfini couple; A candle lit in the pensile droplight may allude to the presence of the Holy Ghost or the ever-present eye of God; A pair of slipper in the corner represent marriage; A dog symbolizes loyalty, signifying the couple's desire to have a child; the white turban means chastity; The green of the woman's dress symbolizes fertility, possibly the hope of becoming a mother; Red bed shows symbolic harmonious, and it might allude to the physical act of love between the married couple.. In the 14th century, The fresh oranges is expense according to the extremely high cost of transportation. In this painting, it represents a symbol of wealthy. The beads on the wall is behalf of piety; The brush means purity. In the middle of the painting, there has a mirror hanging on the wall, framed with 10 outstanding lobate square, each of them has a small circle which draw different pictures of Jesus’ story. And The round mirror in the center is reflecting the scenery of whole