A guide to Jan van Eyck's confident self portrait | National Gallery

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Emma Capron, Associate Curator of Renaissance Painting, explores what made Jan van Eyck such an extraordinary painter.
🖌️ Find out more about the artist Jan van Eyck:
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🎨 Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?)
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23 авг 2021

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@elizabeth6154 2 года назад

I love these “10-minute Talks.” The production quality is professional but not overly produced. And it is always a pleasure to hear directly from your curators, educators, and members of the conservation department. More of these videos, please! ☺️

@rembvanrijn 2 года назад

Despite all the achievements of European painting since van Eyck’s death, this self portrait remains an absolutely staggering achievement, not least because of its utterly mesmerising quality. To stand in front of it and actually feel the artist’s piercing gaze is almost chilling. What a man-and he so clearly tells us so. Fascinating to learn of the papal confessor permit-all of a piece with van Eyck’s stature.

@artriot4758 2 года назад

I read somewhere, speculation that this was a sort of marketing piece for Van Eyck. It was small and portable and it he could hold it up and say, "Look, this is what I can do," as a live demonstration. It is an extraordinary piece of realism.

@that_thing_I_do 2 года назад

Love the curator's enthusiasm and energy.Compelling.

@anarchobuddhist 2 года назад

His piercing gaze captures the metaphysical essence of his being

@johnnydeleon8210 2 года назад

The detail on his self portrait is extraordinary for how small it is, youd have to be so close to see the suttle lighting from his stubble just amazing.

@ArtHistorywithAlder 2 года назад

So true. Really incredible

@susanhepburn6040 2 года назад

Thank you very much, Emma - I really enjoyed your talk, and your enthusiasm! I was staggered to notice that stubble!

@favouritemoon4133 2 года назад

What a great talk by Emma. Great camera work, too. I was transfixed!

@StavrosMusic 2 года назад

Great lecture, very informative; I learned a lot in this. Thank you Miss Emma.

@jasmin0930 2 года назад

I truly enjoyed this video. The speaker was excellent and provided wonderful information in a clear voice. I love the short format; so much detail but never boring or long winded. I look forward to seeing more of these. Thank you for posting that’s very interesting video on Van Eyck 🙏🏻

@matthew-jy5jp 2 года назад

Thank you for sharing with us 😊 love this channel and the passion all of you feel for the work you do.

@pencilsandlight1318 Месяц назад

Terrific lecture. Thank you!

@cstz 2 года назад

Great video as always. I loved to know more about van Eyck, and to see the close-up details as the explanations about each bit were given. So good, too, to see Emma's genuine enthusiasm when she talked about the new discovery! Thank you!

@pelicanus2197 2 года назад

Great presentation by Ms. Capron. Concise but complete. Look forward to more by her.

@lynnblack6493 2 года назад

Love this. I have seen and admired these works. Knowing more makes them even more precious!

@Divertedflight 2 года назад

Thank you Emma. There does seem to be a nice contrast between his cool steely gaze and his devil may care head wear.

@ArtHistorywithAlder 2 года назад

Great video, packed with so much info about Jan van Eyck. I love this portrait and the mysteriousness of van Eyck's life. Thanks!

@davidrocheQuantumStrategy 2 года назад

Fabulous little presentation this. I love also the concise format of 10 min talks. Thank you.

@crimony3054 2 года назад

The way the light interacts with the sclera is unique.

@Daniel-xg9fm 2 года назад

Brilliant work Emma!!

@JORIS1234HOTMAIL 2 года назад

One of the greatest Flemish painters if not the greatest

@mikederby9055 2 года назад

Very well stated presentation. I did not know the gallery had those paintings. Hope to visit again and see them myself. The wedding portrait has always been a marvel to me

@brylorbs69 2 года назад

Great way to start my morning. Thank you!

@altpear 2 года назад

This was really great

@birukhailu7113 4 месяца назад

Thank you

@robertpawlsoky2910 26 дней назад

You have to wonder if the artist gave any thought to considering that people six hundred years into the future would be astonishing at his ability to capture so much in his rendering. At the time he painted yes surely, but six hundred years later. He was creating something immortal.

@CarmineGroe 2 года назад

Thank you Emma. Beautiful and educational.

@veyaai 2 года назад

Wonderful ! Thanks..

@ajmittendorf 2 года назад

Bravo. Wonderful! Thank you!

@cassior7460 2 года назад

Emma, great! Thankyou.

@michaeldarby3503 2 года назад

Ive always loved the Arnolfini portrait, I think its the little dog that does it for me

@jennyruth5620 2 года назад

It's my favorite! I think it's the green that's so stunning. I even have this as my phone case!

@lairx 2 года назад

@@jennyruth5620 It is one of my alltime favourites as well, returning to it time and again. I love everything about this piece - it is totally enigmatic with lots and lots of tiny details, e.g. the shoes, the oranges, the cherries, the single candle... Also interesting is the relation between the Arnolfini painting and the self portrait of this video: there exists a portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini by van Eyck, where Arnolfini wears exactly the same red head gear as van Eyck does in his own self portrait.

@atomsmurf 2 года назад

Thank you! That was great, looking forward to more :)

@carolynl1424 2 года назад

Thank you - I really enjoyed this talk. You know, never noticed the stubble before!

@johnmartin4650 2 года назад

Excellent……..real art…..thank you

@williamgorden6390 2 года назад

I think I would listen to whatever Emma chose to say -- so charming.

@garysmith3173 2 года назад

Wonderful.

@docmccoy95 2 года назад

That was wonderful, thanks.

@marthas8108 2 года назад

Thank you! I learned a lot.

@stickshifter8 10 месяцев назад

Excellent presentation!

@deewhitcha6014 2 года назад

great job! very informative and well presented!

@LariLesque 2 года назад

Such an interesting talk. I didn't know about the Vatican manuscript. I love Netherlandish Art.

@algernonwolfwhistle6351 2 года назад

Very good. Thanks for posting.

@melaniemetcalfe3354 2 года назад

Thanks , now I know Van Eyck a d his paintings and a little about him.

@duncanselvester1045 2 года назад

Thank you National Gallery and Emma, another fascinating talk. Emma you are as beautiful as the painting!

@mandalamia 2 года назад

One could argue that “as I can” means “Here is my best.”

@v.g.r.l.4072 2 года назад

Very interesting. Although one knows the information, it is always amusing to be reminded of it, above all through such a nice hostess.

@rosavella7548 2 года назад

Thank you. Very interesting. 👍😀

@zapatavive8957 2 года назад

Very informative and I like that it was less than 10 minutes long.

@michaeljohnangel6359 Год назад

An excellent presentation, as always. Thanks!! A thought: "As I can" can be interpreted two different ways. "As [only] I can" or "This is the best I can do." The former (and most probable, I suppose) fits his personality of being sure of himself; the latter fits the personality of a modest diplomat.

@dantethunderstone5766 2 года назад

Nicely presented. An interesting talk 🙂

@piros44 2 года назад

A great follow up for this is the Amolfini episode #2 of A Stitch in Time with Amber Butchert where they reproduce the green gown.

@kevingodding9316 2 года назад

Great video 😊

@MrDelvoye 2 года назад

Great presentation. Love early Netherlandish art period

@brrrogers 2 года назад

Thank you for this amazing analysis. one thing I might say is the comment about light at 4:16 I think might be incorrect. Could it be that its grey hair growing intermittently? which he certainly is of the right age. Equally brilliant!

@henrycastle1 2 года назад

❤️

@geoffreykeane4072 2 года назад

Wonderful talk, thank you. That hat does look like he put a live chicken in a red bag and stuck it on his head. Perhaps just a passing fashion..

@romulusbuta9318 2 года назад

It's very seductive to belive that van Eyck made "his portrait" for us...for us to see

@someartist2938 2 года назад

but show me what his palette was, what colors he uses, how he mixes the colors, ow he painted, how he used his technique, how he prepared the surface before painting, how he made his sketches!!!

@MegaLivingIt 2 года назад

My fave high precision painter. But why the outlandish red head gear. You say it was the fashion but it's a bit much. But a lot of his stuff was unusual and interesting.

@splodge5714 2 года назад

Van Eyck's image is in the mirror of the Arnolfini portrait. Is the detail not clear enough to see a likeness?

@myboibill 2 года назад

I am wondering what the relationship was between the king and the painter. It seems very personal.

@paulmdt1 2 года назад

What is the word at 3:46? Apparently the Italian word "sprezzatura" can have this sense ("studied carelessness"), but it sounds as if she's saying something else.

@pamparker4047 2 года назад

Looks a little like charles dance

@jennyruth5620 2 года назад

I saw that too! How Fab to have him play the artist in a biopic?!

@user-nq8tb3ri8f 2 года назад

if you attached the text in the commentary to the video, foreigners who do not know the language could then use the translation.

@LockportDan Год назад

Wonderful, informative presentation. I find your nearly constant hand movements a bit distracting.

@colleenkochman9656 2 года назад

could he have been genetically related to his patron?

@raymondcorremans851 2 года назад

I don't buy it that this is a self-portrait; if you look at the man closely you a certain resemblance with the wife of Jan Van Eyck, namely Margret; so for me, this is a portrait of his father-in-law, a present to him from the painter because he could marry his daughter; in fact, the so-called Arnolfini is his self-portrait, but that's another story I can explain with arguments.