Page 84 of National Gallery, London, 13th of the series of Great Museums of the World, Jan Van Eyck's "The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami" #goliwaliwph #october2018 #pages #inmemoriam #emersonmiranda pic.twitter.com/h7ml8pQIiV— glenncruz (@glenncruz) October 22, 2018
This month, liwaliw Pages shares space with books selected from my personal library's "pride of place," namely those I received as gifts (or pasalubong) from my BFF Emerson Miranda, who was born on July 13, 1984, and passed away only last September 28, 2018. He was 34 years old.
Page 84 of the National Gallery, London, 13th of the series Great Museums of the World, contains Jan Van Eyck's "The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami." On the opposite page, the book describes the work as "An outstanding work of the fifteenth century, this painting reflects the influences of French and Rhineland sculpture."
What is nowadays referred as the Arnolfini Portrait, Wikipedia heaps effusively with "It is considered one of the most original and complex paintings in Western art, because of its beauty, complex iconography, geometric orthogonal perspective, and expansion of the picture space with the use of a mirror."
Coincidentally, the month of October is also Museums and Galleries Month pursuant to Proclamation No. 798 series of 1991.
[This post is antedated: 20181029]
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