Artist field note

Jan van Eyck

Oil paint makes the visible world newly exact and mysterious.

The Annunciation by Jan van Eyck
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The Annunciation

c. 1434-1436

Architecture, inscription and light turn doctrine into tangible space.

The five in one idea

Van Eyck made close looking feel like both empirical discovery and spiritual revelation.