Madonna of Chancellor Rolin
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The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin is an oil painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, dating from around 1435. It is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. It was commissioned by Nicolas Rol
Detail of the angel
Carvings above Rolin
Detail showing the church over Rolin's hands, and the cathedral over Christ, the flowers in the garden and the squashed rabbits of lust
Rogier van der Weyden, Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin c. 1440. Saint Luke makes a drawing for his painting of the Virgin. The setting is clearly derived from the Rolin Madonna.
Portrait of a Man is the title given to a small oil painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, completed in 1433 in Bruges. The inscription at the top of the frame, which is original, c
Madonna of Chancellor Rolin
…that they may represent van Eyck and an assistant, after the pattern of his Arnolfini Portrait. The figure on the right wears a similar red chaperon to the probable van Eyck self-portrait in the National Gallery, London. Near to them are two magpies and two peacocks; the latter are symbols of immorality and of pride, to which even a…
Jan van Eyck Portrait of a Man 1433
Van Eyck, Portrait of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini, c. 1438
Detail from van Eyck's Madonna of Chancellor Rolin (1435), showing a figure in the distance wearing a similar red headdress
The painting in its frame