Describe how Jan van Eyck’s The Arnolfini Portrait demonstrates the ways that Northern European Renaissance art is different from Italian Renaissance art.
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Unlike Italian Renaissance art, which was commissioned for religious buildings and portrayed figures with Classical forms, Northern Renaissance artists, such as Jan van Eyck, depicted the realism of secular figures, ordinary objects, and the natural world.
2. For example, in The Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck carefully renders the details of textures and the individualized, physical likenesses of two subjects to create a window into the world of Northern Europe.
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