Jan van Eyck, les Alpes et la lune

• Autores: Renzo Leonardi
• Localización: Revue de l'art, ISSN 0035-1326, Nº. 155, 2007, págs. 51-57
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • The hypothesis of a trip by Jan van Eyck to Italy can be confirmed by the landscape details in his Crucifixion (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). The background of the Crucifixion depicts a high summit on the right that can be identified as Mont Blanc, with the view seeming to be from a large valley facing the Alps. Such a view is afforded to a traveler coming from the north by the road crossing the Col de la Faucille between Chalon-sur-Saône and Geneva. A photograph taken from this spot confirms the hypothesis. The writer goes on to discuss the Crucifixion's representation of the moon at the very beginning of its declining phase, the first time that it is represented in Western painting as an astronomical rather than symbolic object.