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  Flemish_and_Dutch painting timeline
     
c. 1430
 
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Robert Campin, also known as the Master of Flémalle, brings to Flemish painting a natural and everyday quality which is entirely new      
Campin (workshop) Virgin and Child (detail) c.1430
National Gallery, London

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1432
 
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A new altarpiece is installed in the cathedral in Ghent, introducing the powerful realism of Jan van Eyck      
1434
 
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Giovanni Arnolfini, a merchant from Lucca trading in Bruges, commissions from van Eyck a portrait of himself and his wife        
Jan van Eyck The Arnolfini Portrait (detail)
National Gallery, London

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1435
 
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Chancellor Nicolas Rolin, of Burgundy, commissions an altarpiece from Jan van Eyck       
1435
 
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Rogier van der Weyden, the third in the extraordinary trio of Flemish artists of the 1430s, is appointed painter to the city of Brussels      
Van der Weyden The Magdalen Reading (detail) c.1435
National Gallery, London

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c. 1460
 
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Oil paints, long familiar in the Netherlands, begin to be adopted in Italy in place of tempera