In theory, van Eyck’s patron could have been any one of the five
Croce for the Florence; her sister Ginevra Cavalcanti hitched when you look at the 1416 Lorenzo de’ Medici, aunt off Cosimo il Vecchio
From inside the 2nd one-fourth of 15th 100 years, at the least five of the Arnolfini, brothers and you may earliest cousins, lived-in Bruges.
revealed for the Sep 1439 due to the fact ‘merchant residing in Bruges’.147 Some other sister, Bartolomeo di Nicolao Arnolfini, which passed away in 1473, put case during the 1449 through to the Vierschaar out-of Bruges up against their relative Giovanni di Arrigo.148 Michele di Arrigo Arnolfini was in London for the 1436-7149 and probably enacted thanks to Bruges to the his way from and you will in order to Lucca. Because of the 1449 he previously compensated during the Bruges,150 where the guy passed away for the Michele’s elder brother Giovanni di Arrigo Arnolfini, one particular winning and you can successful family member, invested the majority of their life in the Bruges and you can died around towards eleven September Each of the five might be thought right here. (more…)
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