Jan van Eyck is considered to be the founder of the Early Renaissance style in the Northern Renaissance. It is believed that Eyck invented painting with oils. His paint is so transparent that his works have a unique, almost luminous sheen. So outstanding was his skill as an oil painter that the invention of the medium was at one time credited to him. Van Eyck exploited the qualities of oil as never before, building up …showed first 75 words of 1020 total…

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