Who Is Jan Van Eyck's Man In A Red Turban

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Jan van Eyck, a Northern Renaissance artist was one of the earliest Flemish oil painters, artist and portraitist. He became a court painter to Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy, a sophisticated man in Europe. One of Jan van Eyck’s incredible oil-paint work is ‘Man in A Red Turban’. As his brilliance in the use of oil glaze was extraordinary, he was mistakenly credited with the invention of oil painting. The painted portrait by Jan van Eyck holds a strong sense of personality and a remarkable sense of realism.
Man in A Red Turban, a secular portrait, was painted in the year 1433 by Jan van Eyck. The medium is oil on a wooden panel (26 x 19 cm), held in the National Gallery in London. This painting is believed to be a self-portrait of the artist himself. The composition of the painting is …show more content…

In addition, surrounding the main subject (the man) is a black shirt/coat that blends with the black background. Moreover, the red turban on the subject’s head which is a strong color contrasting with the black in the background, as it also draws attention to the details of the folds, the source of light and the shadows. The artist provided all the details to be carefully observed, such as the red veins in the eyes, his not fully grown beard on his chin and cheeks, and the described wrinkles around the subject’s eyes. Furthermore, the subject’s gaze gives the viewer the feeling that he is staring outside the frame into the viewer’s eyes due to the painted details of paint around his eyes and the details inside the eyes. In

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