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Thursday August 25 2011 / Arts & Philosophy

Jan van Eyck in Holland

Hugo van der Velden (Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University) is one of the most prominent art historians in the world, specialized in Late Medieval Arts.


Miniature from The Turin-Milan Hours by Jan Van Eyck

The lecture Jan van Eyck in Holland closes the summer course Made in the Netherlands: Art from the 15th and 16th Centuries. Hugo van der Velden will lecture on Jan van Eycks famous miniature depicting the count of Holland praying on the beach, one of the absolute highlights of early Netherlandish painting, part of the Turin-Milan Hours. Jan van Eyck stayed at the court of Holland from 1422 to 1425 as court painter to Duke Jan van Beieren. It is the earliest documented period of the life of Van Eyck, the miniature was made during those years. Van der Velden will argue that The prayer on the beach is the first realistic, recognizable landscape in Netherlandish painting and therefore Western-European art history.

Organised by the Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University and Felix Meritis, in cooperation wit the RKD (Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie), the Rijksmuseum and CODART  (Curators of Dutch and Flemish Art).

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