Madonna Of Chancellor Rolin Analysis

The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin The painting The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin, oil on panel was created in 1435 by Jan Van Eyck. He is known for his other well known religious artwork like The Madonna of Canon van der Paele 1436, The Crucifixion, The Last Judgments, and also The Ghent Altarpiece- Singing Angels 1427-29. He was born some time before 1390 and he died the 9 of July,1441. “Van Eyck pursued a career at two courts, working for John of Bavaria, count of Hainaut-Holland (1422–24), and then securing a prestigious appointment with Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy (1425–41),”(Jones, S. 2002). These places of employment had helped him become more well known. The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin is a very detailed painting and shows the how …show more content…
The perceptual view of the room, and the Chancellor. The praying is something that people do regularly and with the clothing being something that would have been worn at that time. The details of everything shows the natural world. The conceptual religious figure the Madonna, the baby in the lap and the angel placing the crown above her head is a good example of conceptual. A conceptual concept that brings perceptual subjects together. Though with the room separated with the perceptual on one side, this could be an empty room that the chancellor is imagining is happening. I feel that Jan Van Eyck and his painting The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin is a great example of what was going on during that time period. People used religion as a book of guidance of what there life should be. Religion back then was all apart life and the people who ruled the land. The Chancellor Rolin shows what people do when in place of power. This painting shows a religious figure in a way that any person of power would want to be see as a person of religious life. With how life has changed over the hundreds of years, This painting continues to show detail and style that is still used