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It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. Established in 1753, the British Museum was the first public national museum. In 2023, the museum received 5,820,860 visitors. At least one group rated it the most popular attraction in the United Kingdom.\n\nAt its beginning, the museum was largely based on the collections of the Anglo-Irish physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. It opened to the public in 1759, in Montagu House, on the site of the current building. The museum's expansion over the following 250 years was largely a result of British colonisation and resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, or independent spin-offs, the first being the Natural History Museum in 1881. Some of its best-known acquisitions, such as the Greek Elgin Marbles and the Egyptian Rosetta Stone, are subject to long-term disputes and repatriation claims.\n\nIn 1973, the British Library Act 1972 detached the library department from the British Museum, but it continued to host the now separated British Library in the same Reading Room and building as the museum until 1997. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Like all UK national museums, it charges no admission fee except for loan exhibitions.","the-british-museum\u002Fbackground\u002Fthe-british-museum_background","the-british-museum\u002Flogo\u002Fthe-british-museum_logo","+44 (0)20 7323 8000",12,"Daily: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM\nFriday: open until 8:30 PM\n24, 25 and 26 December: closed","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.britishmuseum.org","British_Museum",[31],"jan-van-eyck\u002Fthe-arnolfini-portrait\u002Fthe-arnolfini-portrait",{"items":33,"total":85,"page":86,"pageSize":87,"totalPages":85},[34],{"title":35,"id":36,"artists":37,"slug":53,"date":54,"description":55,"height":56,"image":31,"inPrivateCollection":57,"isLocationUnknown":57,"originalTitle":58,"popularity":59,"width":60,"wikipediaId":61,"collections":62,"genres":63,"museum":68,"movements":71,"mediums":80},"The Arnolfini Portrait","67e4f374-a055-4054-a9c6-8219ddd08f52",[38],{"name":39,"id":40,"nationality":41,"slug":45,"biography":46,"born":47,"death":48,"image":49,"popularity":50,"sex":51,"wikipediaId":52},"Jan van Eyck","dcaa8a57-e61f-4eb6-b2a9-43110e6f1ca1",{"id":42,"name":43,"slug":44},"a9c6c9dc-fe5f-46ac-ad89-5121979f7bb7","Dutch","dutch","jan-van-eyck","Jan van Eyck (\u002Fvæn ˈaɪk\u002F van EYEK; Dutch: ; c. before 1390 – 9 July 1441) was a Flemish painter active in Bruges who was one of the early innovators of what became known as Early Netherlandish painting, and one of the supreme figures of the Early Northern Renaissance. Such was his legacy, that he has been called “the inventor of oil-painting” by Vasari, Ernst Gombrich, and others, although this claim is now considered an oversimplification.\n\nSurviving records date his birth at around 1380 or 1390, in Maaseik (then Maaseyck, hence his name), Limburg, which is located in present-day Belgium. He took employment in The Hague around 1422, when he was already a master painter with workshop assistants, and was employed as painter and valet de chambre to John III the Pitiless, ruler of the counties of Holland and Hainaut. Some time after John's death in 1425, he was appointed as court painter to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, and worked in Lille before moving to Bruges in 1429, where he lived until his death. He was highly regarded by Philip, and was dispatched on several diplomatic visits abroad, including one to Lisbon in 1428 to discuss the possibility of a marriage contract between the duke and Isabella of Portugal.\n\nAbout 20 surviving paintings are confidently attributed to him, as well as the Ghent Altarpiece and the illuminated miniatures of the Turin-Milan Hours, all dated between 1432 and 1439. Ten are dated and signed with a variation of his motto ALS ICH KAN (As I (Eyck) can), a pun on his name, which he typically painted in Greek characters.\n\nVan Eyck painted both secular and religious subjects. His works include altarpieces, painted panels—diptychs (dismantled), triptychs, and polyptychs—and commissioned portraits. He was well paid by Philip, who wanted the painter to have the financial security and artistic freedom to paint \"whenever he pleased.\" Van Eyck's early work shows influence from the International Gothic style, which he soon eclipsed, in part through a greater emphasis on naturalism and realism. He achieved a new level of virtuosity through his developments in the use of oil paint. His style and techniques profoundly altered the development of the Early Netherlandish school.","c. 1390","1441-07-09","jan-van-eyck\u002Fjan-van-eyck",25,"MALE","Jan_van_Eyck","the-arnolfini-portrait","1434","The Arnolfini Portrait (or The Arnolfini Wedding, The Arnolfini Marriage, the Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife, or other titles) is an oil painting on oak panel by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, dated 1434 and now in the National Gallery, London. It is a full-length double portrait, believed to depict the Italian merchant Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife, presumably in their residence at the Flemish city of Bruges.\n\nIt is considered one of the most original and complex paintings in Western art, because of its beauty, complex iconography, geometric orthogonal perspective, and expansion of the picture space with the use of a mirror. According to Ernst Gombrich \"in its own way it was as new and revolutionary as Donatello's or Masaccio's work in Italy. A simple corner of the real world had suddenly been fixed on to a panel as if by magic... For the first time in history the artist became the perfect eye-witness in the truest sense of the term\". The portrait has been considered by Erwin Panofsky and some other art historians as a unique form of marriage contract, recorded as a painting. Signed and dated by van Eyck in 1434, it is, with the Ghent Altarpiece by the same artist and his brother Hubert, the oldest very famous panel painting to have been executed in oils rather than in tempera. The painting was bought by the National Gallery in London in 1842.\n\nVan Eyck used the technique of applying several layers of thin translucent glazes to create a painting with an intensity of both tone and colour. The glowing colours also help to highlight the realism, and to show the material wealth and opulence of Arnolfini's world. Van Eyck took advantage of the longer drying time of oil paint, compared to tempera, to blend colours by painting wet-in-wet to achieve subtle variations in light and shade to heighten the illusion of three-dimensional forms. The wet-in-wet (wet-on-wet) technique, also known as alla prima, was highly utilized by Renaissance painters including Jan van Eyck. The medium of oil paint also permitted van Eyck to capture surface appearance and distinguish textures precisely. He also rendered the effects of both direct and diffuse light by showing the light from the window on the left reflected by various surfaces. It has been suggested that he used a magnifying glass in order to paint the minute details such as the individual highlights on each of the amber beads hanging beside the mirror.\n\nThe illusionism of the painting was remarkable for its time, in part for the rendering of detail, but particularly for the use of light to evoke space in an interior, for \"its utterly convincing depiction of a room, as well of the people who inhabit it\". Whatever meaning is given to the scene and its details, and there has been much debate on this, according to Craig Harbison the painting \"is the only fifteenth-century Northern panel to survive in which the artist's contemporaries are shown engaged in some sort of action in a contemporary interior. It is indeed tempting to call this the first genre painting – a painting of everyday life – of modern times\".",82.2,false,"Portret van Giovanni Arnolfini en zijn vrouw (Dutch)",28,60,"Arnolfini_Portrait",[],[64],{"name":65,"id":66,"slug":67},"Portrait","5e6f789a-abcd-4ef0-1234-567890abcdef","portrait",{"address":4,"latitude":5,"longitude":6,"name":7,"zipCode":8,"id":9,"city":69,"slug":21,"description":22,"background":23,"logo":24,"phone":25,"popularity":26,"schedules":27,"website":28,"wikipediaId":29},{"latitude":11,"longitude":12,"name":13,"id":14,"country":70,"slug":19,"image":20},{"id":16,"name":17,"slug":18},[72,76],{"name":73,"id":74,"slug":75,"dates":20},"Northern Renaissance","4c419af9-b643-419d-ae72-d8d323eade1d","northern-renaissance",{"name":77,"id":78,"slug":79,"dates":20},"Early Renaissance","9e8d6a76-6b18-4d2c-82fe-97d6f3639353","early-renaissance",[81],{"name":82,"id":83,"slug":84},"Oil on oak panel","289086f7-4cd3-40d8-b134-6cd57cd30896","oil-on-oak-panel",1,0,30]