The Virgin Mary (The Ghent Altarpiece), 1432 by Jan van Eyck
Canvas Print - 7857-EJV
Location: Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, BelgiumOriginal Size: unknown
Giclée Canvas Print | $54.07 USD
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*Max printing size: 41.3 x 17.7 in
*Max framing size: Long side up to 28"
"The Virgin Mary (The Ghent Altarpiece)" will be custom-printed for your order using the latest giclée printing technology. This technique ensures that the Canvas Print captures an exceptional level of detail, showcasing vibrant and vivid colors with remarkable clarity.
Our use of the finest quality, fine-textured canvas lends art reproductions a painting-like appearance. Combined with a satin-gloss coating, it delivers exceptional print outcomes, showcasing vivid colors, intricate details, deep blacks, and impeccable contrasts. The canvas structure is also highly compatible with canvas stretching frames, further enhancing its versatility.
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Our printing process utilizes cutting-edge technology and employs the Giclée printmaking method, ensuring exceptional quality. The colors undergo independent verification, guaranteeing a lifespan of over 100 years.
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Painting Information
The Ghent Altarpiece's Virgin Mary panel represents a pivotal moment in the evolution of religious painting, where sacred imagery merges seamlessly with artistic innovation. Van Eyck's revolutionary oil technique transforms pigment into radiance, creating surfaces that seem to capture and hold light itself. The painting achieves what medieval artists had long sought: a fusion of earthly materiality with divine luminescence.
Look closely at how the composition draws us into a meditative space. The Virgin's face, tilted downward in contemplation of her book, creates an atmosphere of profound introspection. She exists in a realm between heaven and earth, signified by the tiled floor below and the golden nimbus above. Van Eyck's masterful handling of perspective – revolutionary for its time – allows these different spatial realms to coexist without contradiction. The Latin inscriptions in gold leaf around her head serve both as decoration and theological commentary, binding form and meaning.
The chromatic heart of the painting is that extraordinary blue robe, rendered in precious ultramarine from lapis lazuli. Its deep, resonant color seems to envelope Mary in a cocoon of contemplative silence. Van Eyck's attention to the robe's embroidered hem, with its pearls and jewels, demonstrates his ability to unite meticulous observation with spiritual symbolism. Every fold and reflection serves both pictorial and metaphysical purposes.
What emerges is a new kind of religious image, one that speaks to both the intellect and the soul. This is not merely a devotional object but a meditation on the nature of divine presence in the material world. The Virgin's crown, with its intricate metalwork and gems, symbolizes both earthly and heavenly authority, while her absorption in the text presents her as a model of scholarly devotion. Van Eyck has created a figure who commands reverence not through remote majesty but through the intensity of her own contemplative engagement – a remarkable achievement that would influence religious painting for centuries to come.
Jan van Eyck
Original Size:
*Max framing size: Long side up to 28"
Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium
Jan van Eyck
Original Size:
*Max framing size: Long side up to 28"
Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium
Jan van Eyck
Original Size:
*Max framing size: Long side up to 28"
Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium
Jan van Eyck
Original Size:
*Max framing size: Long side up to 28"
Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium
Jan van Eyck
Original Size:
*Max framing size: Long side up to 28"
Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium