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Rick Steves' Europe
Art Bites 154: The Northern Renaissance, Flemish Painting, and Jan van Eyck
The North featured the art of merchants and businessmen. The paintings were happy slice-of-life scenes, not preachy but feel-good and affordable. Masters like Jan van Eyck painted with rich symbolism and astonishing detail.
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