271. Belgium: History's Greatest Artist
The Rest Is History
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🗓️ 3 December 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Who is the greatest artist of all time? Join Tom and Dominic as Belgian historian Bart van Loo puts forward the case for the hyper-realistic and highly influential art of early Northern Renaissance painter Jan van Eyck.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to the Rest Is History. |
| 0:02.4 | Now Christmas is coming and if you want to give a friend or a loved one a six month or |
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| 0:37.5 | Hello welcome to the Rest Is History and today we are arriving in the Fairland of Belgium |
| 0:43.7 | and Dominic. |
| 0:45.2 | We have had one Belgian on the Rest Is History and he is absolutely a fan favourite. |
| 0:53.0 | Bart Van Lue author of a sensational book called The Bagandians and we have got Bart back |
| 1:00.1 | but thanks so much for joining us. |
| 1:02.4 | Hello Dominic and Dom nice to be here. |
| 1:04.8 | Hello Bart lovely to have you. |
| 1:06.3 | So your book The Bagandians for those people who haven't read it is an absolute feast |
| 1:10.0 | of a book and your appearance on our podcast if anything was even better. |
| 1:15.2 | As you talked constantly as I remember for 60 minutes. |
| 1:18.0 | Tom and I bear it said anything. |
| 1:19.2 | No it was perfect. |
| 1:20.2 | It was absolutely perfect. |
| 1:21.7 | But there was one thing at the end of that Bagandian podcast that you were disappointed by |
| 1:26.5 | I remember. |
| 1:27.5 | You said I haven't talked at all about Flemish art and about Jan Van Eyck. |
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