The first painter to translate Flemish illumination onto a grand scale was Jan Van Eyck. His masterpiece – a radiant triptych known as the Ghent altarpiece – was completed in 1432.

The 15th-century Ghent Altarpiece in Ghent, Belgium. DIRK WAEM/Belga/AFP via Getty Images. According to new research, a determination has been made that Hubert Van Eyck, the brother of Ghent ...

It was begun by Hubert van Eyck and finished by his younger, and more famous, brother, Jan. Painted between 1426 and 1432, it was the first major oil painting in history, and it inspired centuries ...

The triptych may have been created for a hospital, as St. Anthony is called on to intercede for the sick and was the patron saint of many infirmaries. ... “The Road to Van Eyck” opens October 13 at ...

As demands on curators go, the one made of Friso Lammertse was a cracker. "In 2008, the director asked me to prove that Jan van Eyck did not come to Earth by UFO," beams the man behind The Road to ...

But van Eyck’s “Crucifixion” and “Last Judgment” panels, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, take this diametrical effect to an astonishing level of visual intensity.

The first painter to translate Flemish illumination onto a grand scale was Jan Van Eyck. His masterpiece – a radiant triptych known as the Ghent altarpiece – was completed in 1432.