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| | Jan van Eyck : The Play of Realism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | This is not a biography of van Eyck nor is it a comprehensive analysis of all of the painter's work. |
 | | The early Netherlandish painters, such as Dirk Bouts, Roger van der Weyden, Robert Campin, Hans Memling, and Petrus Christus, are characterized by their crystalline light, saturated colors, and obsession with clearly-rendered detail. |
 | | However, Jan van Eyck's realism, especially his sensitively wrought faces, his evocative landscapes, and his almost miraculous ability to render the textures of brocade, metal, glass, armor, and architecture, was the never-surpassed inspiration for so many of his contemporaties and followers. |
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