Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait: Stories of an Icon

by Linda Seidel

Book Overview

First published in 1993, Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait: Stories of an Icon examines one of the earliest and most celebrated paintings in the history of European art from a variety of perspectives. In her lucid analysis, Linda Seidel considers this famous double portrait as social record, legal document, material object, and poetic fiction. Each chapter of her study represents a distinct mode of inquiry and each situates the painting within a different...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521484871
• ISBN13: 9780521484879
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.0" x 9.8"