Random Pick
Jan Van Eyck
"As well as I can"
In her essay for the Heilbrunn Timeline, historian Susan Jones lauds Jan Van Eyck for his legendary objectivity, and how right she is. Jan Van Eyck appears in history out of nowhere. We don't know his date of birth, his education, or where he learned to paint with the cold precision that made him famous in his time and respected to this day. read more