Jan
van Eyck
Early Life, Family and Training Born around 1390, Jan van Eyck entered a world where the brush was a family inheritance. He was not a solitary talent emerging from nothing, but a son of a lineage of painters. He grew up alongside his brothers, Hubert …
A portrait built from Jan van Eyck's own colours
Every 100 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.