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|title=Girl in a Green Gown: The History and Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait

|author=Carola Hicks

|reviewer=John Van der Kiste

|rating=4.5

|buy=Yes

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=9780099526896

|pages=256

|publisher=Vintage

|date=September 2012

|summary=A detailed close-up look at the renowned 15th-century painting known as the Arnolfini Marriage, as well as a history of its provenance and various owners.

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The Arnolfini marriage portrait, as it is generally if perhaps inaccurately known, painted by Flemish artist Jan van Eyck, signed and dated 1434, has long been one of the most popular and enigmatic paintings of its time. Of modest size, a little less than three feet high, it is one of the oldest surviving panel pictures to be painted in oils rather than tempera. It is also regarded as the first work of art which simultaneously celebrates both middle-class comfort and monogamous marriage.

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