Every Movement · Low Countries and Germany c. 1420 to 1580

Northern Renaissance

Oil paint, the mirror, the detail. Reality rendered so closely it becomes a kind of devotion.

The Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck
Jan van Eyck · The Arnolfini Portrait · 1434 · National Gallery, London
When
c. 1420 to 1580
Where
Bruges, Antwerp, Nuremberg
Who
Jan van Eyck, Albrecht Dürer, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel
Source
Wikipedia ↗ · Museum file on Commons ↗
Pushed against
Grew out of

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