Write an 8-10 page paper on the Arnolfini Wedding Portrait by Jan van Eyck. Restrict yourself to the following sources:

Write an 8-10 page paper on the Arnolfini Wedding Portrait by Jan van Eyck. Restrict yourself to the following sources:

1. Erwin Panofsky “Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait.” Burlington
Magazine., vol. 64, 1934, pp. Pp. 117 ff. (This is
available on our Library Reserves system for our class.)
2. Margaret Carroll. In the Name of God and Profit: Jan van
Eycks Arnolfini Portrait. In Representations, vol. 44, Fall,
1993, pp 96-132. (on our class reserve also).
3. Lorne Campbell, ed. National Gallery: The Fifteenth
Century Netherlandish Schools. New Haven: Yale U.
Press, 1998. ND 635 .N368 1998 Pp. 174–211 (This is
available on our class reserve also.)

Read the sources carefully, then write a paper directed to an intelligent reader
addressing the question (in Panofsky) of the identification of the couple in the painting.
Consider the later accounts and the contradictions between the 1993 article by Margaret Carroll and the 1998 publication by the National Gallery. If the identification of the people in the Arnolfini Portrait according to Campbell in Source #3 is correct, how does this affect the interpretation offered by Margaret Carroll in Source #1?
Summarize the ideas of each of the authors, evaluate their evidence and the manner in which they present it. Are they convincing? Why or why not?

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