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.
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- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Michelangelo (1475)
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Martin Luther (1483)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Mehmed II (1432)