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TitleThe Annunciation

Creator nameEyck, Jan van

Creator nationality/cultureNetherlandish

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1434–1436

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas transferred from panel

Dimensions90.2 × 34.1 cm

LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.46.html

Accession number1937.1.39

SubjectsPanel painting, NetherlandishMary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--AnnunciationStained glass windowsPainting, Renaissance

StatusWork is likely the left wing of a small altarpiece

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1. The Fifteenth Century: From Egg to Oil, from Gothic to Humanist Values

Marcia B. Hall

The Power of Color: Five Centuries of European Painting

~~At the dawn of the Quattrocento, a Gothic coloring system matched the Christian culture. Abundant gold symbolized the celestial sphere; a white gesso ground enhanced the brilliance of the pigments bound in egg, which were used in their pure form to maximize their luminosity. As the humanist view gradually gained ground, Christian...

Author

Marcia B. Hall

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.17-57

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00228.002

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20825&redirecttoanchor=32465

Chapter subject tags:Painting--TechniquePainting, Renaissance--ItalyChristian art and symbolism--Renaissance, 1450-1600History of Biblical events--ArtArt--Marketing

The Cleaning and Restoration of Jan van Eyck’s Washington Annunciation

David Bull

Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks

The Annunciation by Jan van Eyck hangs in the galleries of the National Gallery of Art beside great works by Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling, Dirk Bouts, and Petrus Christus ...

Author

David Bull

PublisherNational Gallery of Art

Related print edition pages: pp.156-166

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00196.007

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19982&redirecttoanchor=32465

Chapter subject tags:Conservation and restorationPainting, Netherlandish--15th centuryAltarpieces, NetherlandishPainting, RenaissanceEyck, Jan van, 1390-1440

Jan van Eyck’s Washington Annunciation: Painting Materials and Techniques

E. Melanie Gifford and Catherine A. Metzger and John K. Delaney

Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks

Jan van Eyck (c. 1390–1441) evoked an utterly convincing sense of reality in a richly symbolic world ...

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E. Melanie Gifford and Catherine A. Metzger and John K. Delaney

PublisherNational Gallery of Art

Related print edition pages: pp.128-153

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00196.006

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19980&redirecttoanchor=32465

Chapter subject tags:Eyck, Jan van, 1390-1440Conservation and restorationAltarpieces, RenaissanceAltarpieces, NetherlandishPainting, Netherlandish--15th century

The Context of Jan van Eyck’s Approach to the Thyssen Annunciation Diptych

Carol J. Purtle

Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych

THE EXHIBITION Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych offers viewers an important opportunity to examine a number of paintings reunited in diptych format for the first time in modern history. While the surviving known works are presumed to be only a small sampling of the paintings actually produced, early examples of diptych...

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Carol J. Purtle

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.73-81

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00045.009

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Chapter subject tags:Christian art and symbolismDiptychsEyck, Jan van, 1390-1440Weyden, Rogier van der, 1399 or 1400-1464Panel painting, Netherlandish

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