Van Eyck in Ghent

[@tituslane4929]

Devastated to have missed this show.

[@InezitaGayEckel]

I am heartbroken, utterly and completely to have missed this exhibition of a lifetime.

[@design4earth]

Thanks for feeding me art. Great job by the curators to compare other paintings at the time. Thanks again for stepping out your door in turbulent times just so I can look and hear about art.

[@seanash8391]

I was lucky enough to go twice before the lockdown, it’s an amazing exhibition. It’s so sad this once in a lifetime show isn’t going to be seen by more people. Ditto the big Raphael exhibition in Rome, which I don’t think even opened properly at all.😔

[@classicalbanksy4908]

Love your films - they inspire me to ever greater heights in terms of how I approach both composing and producing music! Music and Art are inextricably linked, and long may they continue to be!

[@timrutter5025]

Breathtaking

[@stargazey3920]

Thanks for showing us round Waldemar.I was supposed to go for my birthday in April but couldn't due to lock-down in UK. Especially sad to have missed it, I would have loved the contrast of work between The Northern and Italian Renaissance (The former I believe happens about one hundred years before the latter but the innovation and intricate realism of The Northern Renaissance is startling).Merit to the Italians though, as Brunelleschi rediscovered linear perspective and this influenced their work but personally there will never be another artist like Van Eyck for me. I was enchanted by the sheer alchemy and presence of his work in The National in London.The minutia of detail in the self portrait or The Arnolfini marriage is simply mind bending considering their scale.The synergy of light and shadow creates what looks like a 3D space,a time capsule to another world.So sad they never got the numbers they would have,how languishing this lock-down has been! Still aren't we fortunate to have inherited such beauty!

[@monicaacevedo2833]

Brilliant clip, thank you immensely !!

[@francebeland1943]

Waldemar is a genius!

[@LiamOFarrell]

Ah great to see!

[@ruthjames9278]

We were planning our first trip to Belgium to see this, sadly not going to be realised

[@Iamnosey]

On! You!

[@AliceMarieM]

will anyone be able to see it? Belgium is still under lock down.

[@LiamOFarrell]

Has it all been taken down now? I suppose it is...

[@오미영-f2b]

🤳💞

[@romulusbuta9318]

Don't forget to tell van Eyck was NOT working alone : his workshop was full of pupils and colaborators....Of course he was THE MASTER ,THE GENIOUS ...but we would not be able to paint so much,so detalied so many paintings only working by himself !!!!!!!!! 8-10-12 working people in is NOT a small workshop !!!!! Of course not all of them were painting with brush....but....IT'S WRONG TO PRETEND HE WAS A GENIUS DOING ALL BY HIS OWN !!!! Still persist this romantic idea of "GENIUS" ,who lived and worked alone.....BUT until Delacroix and Constable any succes full painter owen a workshop =i.e. a larger alelier with craft-men to help him.....NOT "THE SOLITARY GENIUS"

[@romulusbuta9318]

@@joseffinat966 Nice language ! Yeah ....everybody understant it ☝️☝️☝️☝️🤯🔨🤯🔨🤯🔨😃😃

[@romulusbuta9318]

@@joseffinat966 ...yes! And the answer is : Ruud van Nistelrooy😬😬😁

[@classicalbanksy4908]

Wonderful... Only 22 Van Eycks left in the entire world? Do we know how many he actually painted, to have an idea of how many have been lost? And what was it about The Low Countries that encouraged this artistic superiority to flow so readily? The ‘permissive’ attitude? Freedom of Religious expression would suggest a general ‘laissez-faire’ approach by Society about life in general, which could have encouraged these Artists to ‘push the envelope,’ perhaps? Far cry from the tyranny of the Medicis... A certain ‘type’ of Patron? Expecting a certain level of artistic superiority? (a guarantee of ‘one-upmanship’ should any Hapsburg family member drop in to visit?) Or did it come from a competitiveness within the Artists themselves? And where did this Centre of Artistic Excellence move to, as time passed, and tastes shifted..?

[@brianrichards7006]

After Van Eyck, painting went downhill....LOL.

[@phronsiekeys]

If it was anywhere near as crowded as the de Hooch show I saw in Delft in January I'm better off seeing it in this video. But it breaks my heart I can't see it in person

[@jsb7975]

This is the same period Netherlandish composers became the grounders of Renaissance music and with that general music theory as well. Their names became latinized or italianized but they came prodominantly from the southern Netherlands (now Belgium), called : the franco-flemmish composers. f.e. Lassus originates from De Laat. Des Prez : Van der Weijden. Ockegem didn't change his name like others.

[@deborahrobertson9825]

Fantastic! So the exhibition is showing what Waldemar explained in his series, The Renaissance Unchained. That there was plenty of Renaissance already happening up north of Italy.

[@Ravenoflight2275]

Wish I could’ve seen it. It would be great to meet Waldemar at such beautiful exhibition.

[@papettipapetti3550]

Wow

[@MiguelDuarte]

Just beautiful! Can someone tell me which museum is this?

[@willow4827]

I believe it was at the Museum of Fine Art in Ghent.

[@simonaparri474]

Always incredibly exhaustive in his explanation. Thank You

[@Canmore06]

Stunning- excellent clear explanations and enthusiasm.

[@janeknight3597]

Are all the paintings still in Ghent? Is there any possibility iThe exhibition could reopen?