Worldly van Eyck

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Jan van Eyck’s Madonna of Chancellor Rolin (circa 1435) is both intimate and expansive. In the foreground of the painting a man kneels in prayer—eyes fixed, brow furrowed, lips tightly shut in silent devotion—before the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child, who responds with a blessing and a slight twitch of his right foot. Behind […]

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