Jan Van Eyck's The Annunciation, The Hidden Meanings

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Jan Van Eyck’s Annunciation, is a work that shimmers with a luminous clarity, infusing spiritual meaning into every small detail. Van Eyck is true to the Flemish tradition of hiding symbols in the everyday, and using complicated iconography.
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00:00 - Start
00:10 - Introduction
00:35 - Jan Van Eyck, the consummate Flemish painter
01:35 - The Annunciation's Long History
02:19 - New Recipes and Technical Skills
04:49 - Common Annunciation Iconography: The color blue and lilies
05:56 - Common Iconography: A first look at Gabriel
06:24 - Common Iconography: United by words and size
07:14 - Van Eyck adds Annunciation iconography that is all about the Old and the New
08:18 - Old and New in Architecture in Van Eyck’s Annunciation
09:36 - Old and New understandings of Christ of Van Eyck’s Annunciation
11:20 - The Holy Spirit makes a dramatic entrance from the Old into the New
12:55 - Old/Moses vs New/Christ
14:03 - Even the tiles on the floor connect the old with the new in Van Eyck’s Annunciation
16:44 - Gabriel’s wings connect the old (Noah) to the new (Christ)
18:54 - The globe and the footstool bring old and new together
19:30 - And at the center is Mary
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@plainchant154 6 ай бұрын

I live in DC and have spent hours viewing this painting, the two obscure images that flank the stain glass have baffled me for years. Thank you, a most illuminating essay.

@CB-vg1wq 2 ай бұрын

Thank You so much for your excellent review of this painting. You have a special ability to explain the meaning of art.

@mariecrockett8014 2 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh! This is the most amazing video. I can hardly wait to see this painting. It is on my bucket list.

@KellyBagdanov 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@sazakay820 3 жыл бұрын

You are phenomenal. Beautifully examined

@KellyBagdanov 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@kaylemoine1571 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful. Thank you.

@KellyBagdanov Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

@suewrzesinski3521 Жыл бұрын

Crystal clear and intriguing. It highlights how learned Van Eyck was and how complex the design of the painting really is. I'm sending this link to my class of seniors/retired students. Thanks very much.

@KellyBagdanov Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you!

@nickwabd9877 3 жыл бұрын

This must be the most underrated art channel on KZfaq m, you deserve more subs !!

@KellyBagdanov 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😀 That is much needed encouragement.

@nickwabd9877 3 жыл бұрын

@@KellyBagdanov just keep going, the subs will follow. Will you be making videos about more recent art also in the future?

@KellyBagdanov 3 жыл бұрын

@@nickwabd9877 Depends on what you mean by more recent. In Jan. and Feb. I'll be posting works by Jacques Louis David over on my blog, and then converting them to videos. So moving into the late 1700's. I also plan to make videos on some of the Impressionist this year. I'm researching copyright laws, and what works I can use in video's. Right now I'm only doing art I can access in the public domain.

@jimearl4129 2 жыл бұрын

A terrific video and explication. I thought I knew a lot about Van Eyck, but this showed me much more. Thank you very much.

@KellyBagdanov 2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, and thanks for taking the time to comment.

@BrianJosephMorgan Жыл бұрын

Excellent.

@KellyBagdanov Жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

@rosavella7548 2 жыл бұрын

Very informative. Thank you. 👍😀

@leunisvandewege9651 Жыл бұрын

I'm from that same part of the Flanders, I don't see any reason why the words "Als ich chan" should be interpreted different from their normal meaning: "As I can do it". One can imagine this selfportred in the room where he received potential clients so they could compare with the "original" and be in impressed. I know this kind of down to earth explications not to be popular in culturely highflying society.

@henrynagelberg Жыл бұрын

But you are not from Flanders in the 15th Century.

@leunisvandewege9651 Жыл бұрын

@@henrynagelberg No, and I'm not from mars either. But at least one of my ancesters was walking the streets of Brugge at that time. He was makelaar (merchant) in grains.

@henrynagelberg Жыл бұрын

@@leunisvandewege9651 Congratulations, that still doesn't make you (or me) an expert on language and idiom use in Brugge in the 15th century. De mazzel.

@leunisvandewege9651 Жыл бұрын

@@henrynagelberg Thank you. By coincidence my teacher Dutch and Literature on Atheneum once told my mother he considered me to be a kind of genius on language and idiom (especially interpretation of language). And now I come to think of it; I scored 9.1, 9.3, 9.5 and 9.8 on those multiplechoises.

@KellyBagdanov Жыл бұрын

Thanks for commenting, I find the down-to-earth explanation also compelling. He certainly could do it and would need to advertise that fact.