Belgium: History's Greatest Artist (TRIH ep 271)
1434 · Resource
In this episode of The Rest Is History hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook welcome Bart van Loo to discuss Jan van Eyck and Flemish art within the Burgundian context. Van Loo situates van Eyck in Maasland (eastern present-day Belgium), outlines his role as court painter and envoy to Philip the Good, and emphasises the artist’s technical innovations in oil painting. The conversation covers van Eyck’s portraits (including the Man in a Red Turban and the Arnolfini Portrait), his inscriptions...
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- Wars of the Roses (1455)
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