The Arnolfini Betrothal
Subtitle: Medieval Marriage and the Enigma of Van Eyck's Double Portrait (Discovery Series, 3)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: December 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780520212213
Subjects: Cultural studies; Family & relationships; History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600; Painting & paintings; Marriage customs and rites, Medieval; Expertising; Wedding portrait of Giovanni A; Individual Painters - Renaissance; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Individual Artist; Eyck, Jan van,; Criticism; History - General; Art / General; Eyck, Jan van; Wedding portrait of Giovanni Arnolfi and Keanne Cenami; Wedding portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and Jeanne Cenami; Panel painting; 15th century; 1390-1440
First sentence: Commonly called the "Arnolfini Wedding," in part because of Panofsky's well-known view that the couple are engaged in contracting a clandestine marriage, Jan van Eyck's double portrait in the National Gallery in London depicting a man and a woman in a bourgeois interior (Plate I) is probably the most widely recognized northern panel painting of the fifteenth century.