Chapter 20- Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Northen Europe (post 2)

Jan van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife, 1434. Late Medieval/Early Renaissance.

Initially, this painting by Jan van Eyck, this painting neither excited me or bored me; it was just a painting of a patron and his wife. After class, however, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife suddenly became one of my favorite paintings featured in this chapter. My sudden interest occurred after I learned of all of the symbolism and subliminal, secular and religious, over/undertones in the painting. That no item in the painting was rendered insignificant or just simply there for "decoration" was extremely creative on the part of the artist.