The Van der Paele panel is Jan van Eyck's largest painting after the Ghent Altarpiece. Once again the sense of reality, both in the treatment of space, light and matter, and in the sense of the presence of figures, is breathtaking. Here, too, the effect is produced by the sort of special techniques and know-how that went beyond the new 'academic' rules prevalent in Italy at the time and with which Van Eyck must have been familiar.
Summary of works by Jan van Eyck |
Paintings until 1434 | Paintings from 1435 |
The Ghent Altarpiece (1432) |
Open, upper section (1) | Open, upper section (2) | Open, lower section |
closed, upper section | closed, lower section |
Famous panels |
Arnolfini marriage portrait | Madonna with Canon van der Paele |