Write an 8-10 page paper on the Arnolfini Wedding Portrait by Jan van Eyck.
Restrict yourself to the following sources:
1. Erwin Panofsky “Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait.” Burlington Magazine., vol. 64, 1934, pp. Pp. 117 ff.
2. Margaret Carroll. “In the Name of God and Profit”: Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait.” In Representations, vol. 44, Fall, 1993, pp 96-132.
3. Lorne Campbell, ed. National Gallery: The Fifteenth Century Netherlandish Schools. New Haven: Yale U.
Press, 1998. ND 635 .N368 1998 Pp. 174–211
Read the sources carefully, then write a paper directed to an intelligent reader addressing the question (in Panofsky) of the identification of the couple in the painting.
Consider the later accounts and the contradictions between the 1993 article by Margaret Carroll and the 1998 publication by the National Gallery.
If the identification of the people in the Arnolfini Portrait according to Campbell in Source #3 is correct, how does this affect the interpretation offered by Margaret Carroll in Source #1?
Summarize the ideas of each of the authors, evaluate their evidence and the manner in which they present it. Are they convincing? Why or why not?
