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Arnolfini Portrait
Sign in to saveAlso known as The Arnolfini Wedding, Arnolfini Wedding, The Arnolfini Marriage, Arnolfini Marriage, Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife, Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini (?) and his Wife, The Arnolfini Portrait, The Arnolfini Portrait (Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini (?) and his Wife)
1434 painting by Jan van Eyck
Key facts
- Artist
- Jan van Eyck
- Medium
- Oil on oak panel of 3 vertical boards
- Dimensions
- 82.2 cm × 60 cm (32.4 in × 23.6 in); panel 84.5 cm × 62.5 cm (33.3 in × 24.6 in)
- Location
- National Gallery , London
- Accession
- NG186
- Website
- nationalgallery.org.uk
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Encyclopedic overview
The Arnolfini Portrait (or The Arnolfini Wedding, The Arnolfini Marriage, the Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife, or other titles) is an oil painting on oak panel by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, dated 1434 and now in the National Gallery, London. It is a full-length double portrait, believed to depict the Italian merchant Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife, presumably in their residence at the Flemish city of Bruges.
It is considered one of the most original and complex paintings in Western art, because of its beauty, complex iconography, geometric orthogonal perspective, and expansion of the picture space with the use of a mirror. According to Ernst Gombrich:
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