99% Artists Couldn't Paint This

[@iggyzorro2406]

painting the intricacy of the wood work and chandelier and the little pictures around the mirror are amazing.

[@tleevz1]

This is one of my favorite paintings! Nice. I found it in a big art book at Barnes and Noble that I would peruse while waiting for movies at the theater next door.

[@DoloresJNurss]

While the year is on the wall, the month is just barely glimpsed in the ripe holly berries just outside the window, as well as the oranges. Overlapping the seasons for the two puts this painting roughly in November.

[@musicinthewildwood]

That's not something I'd heard before, that's quite interesting.

[@onefeather2]

Really enjoy the videos and research on the paintings.

[@AlencarFaulkner]

There is symbolism suggesting that this is a posthumous portrait of Mrs. Arnolfini. The burned out candle on her side, the Passion scenes of death or violence on her side, and so on. Or so I read.

[@donald4624]

Thank you, that was rather interesting, looking forward to more.

[@newhorizons1]

Could this have even made at first , by a camera obscura? Vermeer was a contemporary of Van Dyke, and he was able to play with light and composition in this way too. We all know he did use a camera obscura. I'm new to your channel and I'm rapidly consuming your content. I find your videos to be well presented, thoughtful and very well researched. Thanks for making them .

[@catinthedubstephat]

Great video! I never had interest in the Dutch masters until watching this video and now I'm deeply engaged!

[@martijnkeisers5900]

Netherlandish Masters, Dutch Masters are after the split of Belgium and the Netherlands.

[@justkiddin84]

Definitely explore them! Really great art amongst them.

[@luciandogaru-kinn8624]

Jan van Eyck died in 1441; the painting you are talking about was made in 1434.

[@inspiraggio]

You're right. Along the whole video I say the right year, but I commited a mistake doing the intro.

[@MementoMori-kn4dh]

10:45 casually cementing "I was here" all the way back then

[@pbohearn]

The Spanish Painter Vasquez did the same mirror gimmick in his masterpiece, "Las Meninas" featured in the Prado Museum. I don't know if it was before or after, but his is a much larger mirror and other people populate the image both in the reflection as well as the painters vantage point, and the painter is reflected in the mirror.

[@shironerisilk]

The Arnolfini Portrait is about two centuries older than Las Meninas, but both are similar in how mysterious and incredible both are.

[@MichaelLeBlanc-p4f]

Perfect . . . !

[@MementoMori-kn4dh]

That's seriously impressive

[@kanndy1386]

I really live this channel

[@StarlahMutiny]

This is literally my favorite painting lol

[@dhm7815]

A small dog appeared in wedding pictures of the period. It did not necessarily mean a real dog had been there. The thing is that marriages were so often arranged marriages that it was to much to ask a woman to immediately fall in love with a man she did not know, or fall in love ever. But she should pledge her loyalty, her dog-like loyalty.

[@musicinthewildwood]

One thing: rosaries don't have bristles, brushes do. 😁 Those are tassels. I also read that one flame over Arnolfini's head to represent his being alive and not his wife who has no flame. There's been a lot of arguments about this one.

[@MarkLewis...]

Why is her hand and left thumb so janky?! Only 1 other person in the history of art had a thumb like that, but the Grinch wouldn't exist for another 500 years!

[@stevechrisman3185]

It looks like the dog is missing from the reflection.

[@1.2.1.0.R.I.O]

... Am I feeling deja Vu. Does this have a sister channel?

[@Madamchief]

Bro's hat reminds me of the Virtual Insanity music video😅

[@JamesWoodruff-h1k]

She’s pregnant!! I still think that. I understand the fashion but her look at him…besides why not make that another facet of the painting. Everything is understated to the minutiae. A mystery added for us to ponder maybe. My perspective but thanks for sharing.

[@martijnkeisers5900]

No she is not, sorry. And she died too.. 😊

[@l1ve2art]

She's definitely not, he literally just explained it in the video, that was a common way to hold/pose with material at the time.

[@buschovski1]

@@l1ve2artWhy is her belly so huge then? its not from holding the fabric

[@buschovski1]

They both are. That its some popular gesture doesnt comvince me at all. That one in the red dress, look at her face. Such a tender expression. Its thee tender expression

[@l1ve2art]

@@buschovski1 i still am not convinced though? Her dress doesn't look attached to her front, there seems to be seams or folds to it? And her tender expression may be simply from love? I dunno....

[@Natethenothing]

Itz a fr😅

[@Natethenothing]

Itz a fruit😅

[@letsscribble1417]

The women seems to b pregnant...the way she's holding her belly n her posture too

[@nelsonvh3033]

you left out a lot

[@hidansektas]

fiirst

[@jackwegener3484]

@hidansektas You may indeed be "fiirst" but you certainly don't know how to correctly spell the word.

[@buschovski1]

Dude theyre pregnant. Look at the expressions on both women. Especially the one in red. her eyebrows are turned up with such a tender expression shes got to be. And their bellies are huge. grasping your dress like that isnt going to make your belly big anyway. Preggers all the way