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Jan van Eyck: The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin

Successive Golden Rectangles dividing a Golden Rectangle into squares (Jan van Eyck: The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin).

Jan van Eyck
Jan van Eyck (before c. 1395 – before July 9, 1441) was a Flemish painter active in Bruges and considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century.

Great Paintings: The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin 
The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin is an oil painting by the Early Netherlandish master Jan van Eyck, dating from around 1435. It is on display in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.

The work was commissioned by the energetic Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of the Duchy of Burgundy, whose votive portrait takes up the left side of the picture, for his parish church, Notre-Dame-du-Chastel in Autun, where it remained until the church burnt down in 1793. After a period in Autun Cathedral, it was moved to the Louvre in 1805. Source: Wikipedia, The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin.
 

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