“Van Eyck and Analyzing Art in the Northern Renaissance” Please respond to the following, using sources under the Explore heading as the basis of your response:
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Jan Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Double Portrait
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Please respond to the discussion questions, using sources under the Explore heading as the basis of your response:
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Jan Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Double Portrait
Discussion (please include greeting and questions in your post)
Hello wonderful classmates and Dr. C here is my main post for the Week 8 Discussion “Van Eyck and Analyzing Art in the Northern Renaissance”
1) My interpretation of the Arnolfini painting agrees with . . .
Jan van Eyck’s painting, Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife Giovanna Cenami, from 1434, is often used as a prototype example for iconographic analysis, and the conflicts that arise within it. As a painter, Van Eyck was revered for his incredible ability to mimic realism and the effects of light. The painting’s many symbols, some of Christian origin, have been a source of some debate. It was widely accepted as a painting representing a marriage, but recent controversy suggests it is more a record of engagement than a wedding portrait. In van Eyck’s time, a woman laying her hands in the palm of a male, as she so conspicuously does in the painting, was understood to be an agreement to wed (Sayre) Above the mirror in the center of the background are the words “Jan van Eyck has been here, 1434.†To contemporary ears this almost sounds like a bit of playful graffiti, but it also clearly establishes the painter as a witness to the event being painted (Jan Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Double Portrait
Be VERY clear which interpretation you believe,
I agree with ____________ Here’s why . . .
(Discuss in some detail WHY you made the interpretation you did, this should be at least 3 or 4 sentences and assess which parts of the painting suggest your interpretation)
2) Symbolism I see in the ‘Arnolfini Portrait’
There is a lot to discuss here, please at least three symbolic elements and then discuss what the symbolism is….
3) Symbolic elements I would put in my own ‘me and my significant other portrait’
Please come up with at least four items and then EXPLAIN why they are symbolic for you
Please no attachments in the discussion area: Students using phones or tablets cannot open, read, or comment on your post. Also please avoid forbidden websites and please avoid too much copy and paste content.
4) Please reply to a least one classmate.