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The Arnolfini Portrait is as enigmatic as it is iconic. Painted by Jan van Eyck in 1434, it spawns a lot of speculation – over half a millennium later, we are left with many unanswered questions.

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Van Eyck’s 1434 The Arnolfini Marriage Portrait took on the title as the world’s first masterpiece in oils, and the artist has been memorialized as the “father of oil painting.” ...

The painting in question is called The Arnolfini Portrait by Dutch painter Jan van Eyck. It is a relatively small oil painting, dating back to 1434, depicting what is believed to be the wedding shoot ...

Jan van Eyck, one of the most famous artists of the Renaissance period, and often called the pioneer of the Northern Renaissance was an exceptional painter who served under a King and a Duke in ...

The awkward hand-holding gesture from Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait. Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage.Images/Getty Images On the other hand, it could be part of another tradition entirely.

Reflected and distorted in this sphere (shades of Jan van Eyck’s “ The Arnolfini Portrait ”) are a ceiling light, a window, empty shelves, a doorway and an examination chair with a red light ...

The picture we have come to call the Arnolfini Portrait is one of the best known, best loved, and most reproduced, copied, satirised and speculated upon in the world. Painted in Bruges by Jan van Eyck ...