11 magg 1434 anni - Van Eyck - The Arnolfini Portrait

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believed to depict the Italian merchant Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife, presumably in their home in the Flemish city of Bruges.
It is considered one of the most original and complex paintings in Western art, because of its beauty, complex iconography, geometric orthogonal perspective, and expansion of the picture space with the use of a mirror.
Van Eyck used the technique of applying layer after layer of thin translucent glazes to create a painting with an intensity of both tone and color. The glowing colors also help to highlight the realism, and to show the material wealth and opulence of Arnolfini's world.
The illusionism of the painting was remarkable for its time, in part for the rendering of detail, but particularly for the use of light to evoke space in an interior, for "its utterly convincing depiction of a room, as well of the people who inhabit it".

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