Jan van Eyck

Philip the Good

Duke of Burgundy from 1419-1467

Bruges

City with lots of painters such as Van Eyck

Giorgio Vasari

Did bios of painters

Karel van Mander

Flemish painter and art historian 

Incarnation

Embodiment of flesh

Eucharist

When you eat the cracker and drink da wine

Graisailles

In grey

Hubert can Eyck

Brother of Jan— helped with Ghent

Jodocus Vijd

Patron in red for Ghent altarpiece

Isabel Borluut

Female donor from the Ghent altarpiece

Sibyls

Female oracles in Ancient greece

Westwork

The monumental, west-facing entrance section of a Romanesque church

Communion of Saints

Spiritual union of the members of the Christian Church, living and dead, but excluding the damned

Deesis

Traditional iconic representation of Christ in Majesty of Christ Pantocrator enthroved, carying a book, and flanked by Virgin Mary and St John the Baptist

Cumaean and Erythrean Siblys

Fortold coming of Christ

Predella

Step or platform on which an altar is placed

Limbo

Purgatory

Nicholas Rolin

Wine merchant man who had a piece of art about him

Canon va der Paele

Papal scribe in Van Eyck painting

St. Donatian

On left in Eyck’s Canon painting

Autun

Town in France

Notre-Dame du Chatel

Church in France

Augustine

Bishop of Hippo who was a theologian and writer

Giovanni Arnolfini

Arnolfini portrait fame

Immaculate Conception

Mary preggers due to god sex free

Als ik kan (“as I can”)

Van eyck pun

Lentulus Letter

Purported contemporary letter about Jesus

Schild and Schilder