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|  Jan van Eyck: The Arnolfini Marriage Source: WebMuseum (see "image archives" below)
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Jan van Eyck Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Jan van Eyck at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan Saint Jerome in His Study, ca.1435
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Christ Blessing, 1440
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna See the "Netherlands 15th – 16th centuries" section
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Jan van Eyck at the Louvre Museum, Paris The Virgin of Chancellor Rolin
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History  The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, ca.1430
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW! (Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany Lucca-Madonna
Frick Collection, New York City NEW! Virgin and Child, with Saints and Donor
Galleria G. Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro, Venice (in Italian)  Crocifissione
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Le Musée Ingres, Montauban, France (in French)  Click on the artist name, then on the artwork title to view the work
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Three Marys at the Tomb
National Brukenthal Museum, Romania
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany Portrait of Niccolo Albergati
State Museums of Berlin
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Flemish Art Collection, Belgium St Barbara of Nicodemia, 1437 (underdrawing for a painting)
Flemish Art Collection, Belgium Virgin and Child with Canon Joris van der Paele, 1436
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch) 
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French) 
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Google Art Project The Madonna in the Church (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)
Google Art Project The Annuciation Diptych (Museo Thyssen - Bornemisza, Madrid)
Jan van Eyck at The Art Renewal Center
Jan van Eyck at The Artchive 
Jan van Eyck in the Web Gallery of Art 
Jan van Eyck in the WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Aiwaz Panopticon
Artliste Image archive with zoomable images
Artpx
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database 
Jan van Eyck at CGFA 
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish) 
Humanities Web 
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Olga's Gallery
Rasiel's Wallpapers (Click on the size of the scan you wish to view)
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW! Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
The Modernist Journals Project (Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jan van Eyck  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia Biographical info
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization) "An Old Master and New Minimalism," article by Souren Melikian
The Guardian Newspaper, UK Essay on The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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 Van Eyck
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 Jan van Eyck: The Play of Realism
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