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Descending in direct line from the monkish French Gothic manuscript illu - minators of the late Middle Ages, the Flemish school got its start in the early 14003 when Jan van Eyck, painter and "varlet de chambre" to the Duke of Burgundy, brought a brand-new vividness and brilliancy to the technique of painting...
...Eyck and his northern followers painted not the imaginary, ideal world of Biblical legend, but the matter-of-fact scenes that they saw about them, picturing in almost superphotographic detail the chill landscapes, household furnishings, costumes and sharp-featured faces of their native Flanders...
...school, was also unexcelled in Dutch masterpieces and Spanish and German primitives, trailed only the top-ranking U.S. collections in Renaissance Italians. It also contained a masterwork that would have watered the mouths of such Johnson rivals as the late Andrew Mellon: a postcard-sized St. Francis by van Eyck, whose $500,000 valuation makes it the most expensive painting per square inch...
Married. Francelia Tobey, daughter of isolationist Senator Charles William Tobey of New Hampshire; and Dr. Edward Ten Eyck Munson of Rochester, N.Y.; in Temple...
Doon, an artist, is on trial for paper-knifing Edwin Hallett, his fellow house guest in the Van Eyck mansion in Manhattan, for love of Betty Van Eyck. It is a novelty item, presented as exact transcript of the trial itself, with sketches and photographs...