Poems: "Gallery [Jan van Eyke, The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434]", "Apparition"

Hypothyroidism in the “Arnolfini Portrait” (1434) by Jan Van Eyck (1390–1441)

BACKGROUND The Arnolfini portrait painted by Jan van Eyck in 1434 remains one of the most puzzling yet alluring paintings of prerenaissance western art. PURPOSE The painting is renowned for its exactitude in brush strokes, textures and the distinctive morphology of the main character Arnolfini. The nature of these requires pathological consideration. METHODS Diagnostic and pathological anal...

Art and Design

Praised for its revolutionary technique and studied for its perplexing imagery, Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait has remained a riddle since the 19th century. Completed in 1434 in Bruges, the work showcases a skilled use of oil paints and impressively realistic details. More famous and perhaps more important, however, than van Eyck’s technique are the two figures and the objects which decorate...

Jan van Mill

De Groot proved that every group is the autohomeomorphism group of some metrizable space. A space is totally disconnected if every connected subset of it contains at most one point. We prove that every separable metrizable totally disconnected topological group is topologically isomorphic to the autohomeomorphism group of some separable metrizable space, when given the compact-open topology. It...

Multi-spectral Imaging of a van Gogh's Self-portrait at the National Gallery of Art Washington DC

Efforts to apply an end-to-end color reproduction system using multi-channel visible-spectrum imaging to a van Gogh self-portrait at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., have been under way at the Munsell Color Science Laboratory. The goal was to perform preliminary experiments by imaging a target consisting of pigments based on direct spectral measurements of the painting. These exper...

Jan A . van Gils Matthijs van der Geest Jutta Leyrer