Complex sentence: Christus was influenced by the first generation of Netherlandish artists, especially Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, and the panel is characteristic of the simplicity and naturalism of art that period.
Split into simpler sentences: Christus was influenced by the first generation of Netherlandish artists, especially Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden. The panel is characteristic of the simplicity and naturalism of the art that period.