The portrait has become a subcultural activity, a kind of folk art. Visit the National Portrait Gallery and you will encounter the outsider art of the bourgeoisie. There are contemporary pictures here ...

The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck has baffled art historians ever since it was painted in 1434. It has been dissected and analysed, maybe more than any other painting in history, and in the ...

Modigliani (left), Picasso, and André Salmon (who renamed “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”) in front the Café de la Rotonde, Paris, 1916 (photo by Jean Cocteau via Wikimedia Commons) Jan van Eyck, “The ...

This exhibition demonstrates Van Eyck’s influence on the Pre-Raphaelite through visual comparisons which satisfyingly reveal a complex relationship between two otherwise disparate art movements. Jan ...

Reconstruction of the execution of the Arnolfini portrait. Top: Postures of the painter during the painting process. Bottom: views obtained from the four lenses. Université de Lorraine, Fourni par ...

Some paintings refuse to stay quietly on the wall. The characters in them slip out of the frame, casting off the picture's still, fixed moment and enticing us to imagine the story of their lives. Iris ...

VISUAL ART: VERA RYAN reviews Girl in a Green Gown: The History and Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait By Carola Hicks Chatto… VISUAL ART: VERA RYANreviews Girl in a Green Gown: The History and Mystery ...

Today is Worldwide Marriage Encounter Day. All loved-up married couples, listen up. Fr Gabriel Calvo, a Spanish priest, inaugurated this celebration of "an open and honest relationship within marriage ...

The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck is one of the most extraordinary and enigmatic paintings in the history of Western art. What it shows seems unremarkable enough: a couple, standing in their home ...