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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. It is considered one of the most original and complex paintings in Western art, because of its beauty, complex iconography, [ 1 ] geometric orthogonal perspective ...
One question that splits critics is whether the Merchant's tale is a fabliau. [citation needed] Typically a description for a tale of carnal lust and frivolous bed-hopping, some would argue that especially the latter half of the tale, where Damyan and May have sex in the tree with the blind Januarie at the foot of the tree, represents fabliau.
Arnolfini Portrait, or Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife by Jan van Eyck, 1434. Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini (c. 1400 – after 1452) was a merchant from Lucca, a city in Tuscany, Italy.
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Merchant and Ivory's first encounter happened in 1959 outside of the Indian consulate in New York City. The filmmaker had just presented his short documentary The Sword and the Flute for an ...
He was born in Bristol c.1480 to John Howell, a local merchant, and his wife, Alice. [1] His father may be the John Howell who was trading through the port in 1504 to Andalusia, Bordeaux and south Wales. [6] Following John's death, Alice married Sir Thomas Ap Morgan of Pencoed Castle in Monmouthshire with whom she had further children. [1]
It is in the form of a fabliau and tells the story of a merchant, his wife and her lover, a monk. [1] Although similar stories can be found in Boccaccio 's Decameron , a frequent source for Chaucer's tales, the story is a retelling of a common type of folktale called "the lover's gift regained".
Despite his desire to remain behind the scenes, Bradley provided Merchant with the names of several people he believed to have first-hand knowledge of when Willis and Wade’s romantic ...