Question

I need help with the symbolic in the ''Arnolfini Wedding'' by Jan van Eyck please.

Answer 1

Is this an article/book? If so I can't help. But if there are any choices that would help people figure the answer out.

Answer 2

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Van_Eyck_-_Arnolfini_Portrait.jpg

Answer 3

"...[M]eaning is neither found nor given, but that it takes shape arbitrarily, and that it is dependent upon associations and circumstances that scholars, artists, and viewers all bring to their engagement with paintings. It is not constructed by any one of them alone, although each of us is responsible for the orchestration of our own responses..." (Linda Seidel, Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait: Stories of an Icon, Cambridge University Press, 1993, p. 14).

Seidel reminds us in the quotation above that we should not understand our role as a passive one in which we simply reflect the "found" or "given" meaning of a work of art. Instead we need to take an active stance in relationship to the work and make or construct our own understanding of the meaning of a work of art. Seidel describes the role of the art historian as a narrator or story teller. This will be the stance I want us take in considering one of the major examples of Northern Renaissance art, Jan van Eyck's so-called Arnolfini Wedding Portrait.

Answer 4

http://www.oneonta.edu/faculty/farberas/arth/arth214_folder/van_eyck/arnolfini.html

Answer 5

Thank you.

Answer 6

Anytime!

Answer 7

XD I just did something like this a while ago.