Tag: Bruges

• Arnolfini Double Portrait & Maternal Mortality

  

  This amazing painting by Jan van Eyck (1390-1441) features Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini (c1400 – after 1452) (possibly a cousin of Jan van Eyck) and his wife Costanza Trenta Arnolfini (c1413-c1432-3). They were both from Lucca (to the northwest of Florence in Italy). He was a prominent Italian merchant. Her aunt was married to Lorenzo…

  Aradia Wyndham

  June 19, 2024

  Pregnancy, Video

  15thcentury, art history, Bruge, Bruges, history, marriage, maternal mortality, Pregnancy, renaissance