31 May 2006 – 29 October 2006

Focus on Jan van Eyck: Lucca Madonna, circa 1437-38 (Inv. No. 944)

The exhibition sheds light on Jan van Eyck’s famous Lucca Madonna, a central work in the Städel museum’s collection of early Netherlandish art. “Mind maps” that fill an entire wall explain the painting: the name by which it is generally known and how it came to the Städel, the use of the painting, the subject matter and the attributes, and the significance and purpose of the figures. There are also discussions of the specific painting technique used by the early Netherlanders, which made it possible to reproduce details of a wide range of materials with a realism previously unimaginable.
Curator: Priv. Doz. Dr. Jochen Sander

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700 years of European history are represented in a collection of 2,700 paintings, 600 sculptures and 100,000 prints and drawings by artists ranging from Dürer, Holbein and Cranach to Rembrandt, Vermeer, Monet, Van Gogh and Cézanne to Matisse and Picasso, Bacon and Baselitz, Serra and Palermo.

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