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2nd Queen’s Regiment ’Queen’s Bays’ 145
4th Light Dragoons 145
12th Light Dragoons 130
16th Light Dragoons 126–30, 133
17th Dragoons 145
Aders, Carl 146–7, 149, 159
Adorno, Anselm 19–20
advertising 215–16
Albergati, Cardinal 190
Albert, Prince 159, 161
Alberti, Leon Battista, Della Pittura 207
Alcazar palace, Madrid 91, 93, 99, 100, 101, 133
Alfonso, King of Naples 20, 209
Aliénor de Poitiers 87
Les Honneurs de la Cour 67, 68, 70, 72–3
amber 50–3
Amiens, Peace of (1802) 105
Andalucia 109, 113, 115, 117
Angelico, Fra (Il Beato) 149, 150
Angerstein, John Julius 158
Angivillier, Comte d’ 102–3
Anne of Burgundy 170
Anne of Cleves 9
Anson, Major-General George 127
Antonello da Messina 94, 192
Antwerp 52, 53, 79, 81, 84, 91, 94, 209
Antwerp Cathedral 155
Apsley House, London 142, 148
Aranjuez palace 93, 105
Arnolfi ni family 18, 20
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol 221
Arnolfi ni, Giovanni 211
Arnolfini, Giovanni di Arrigo 185
Arnolfini, Giovanni di Nicolao 211
Arnolfi ni portrait
acquired by the National Gallery 1, 3, 102, 153, 161–7
amber beads 50–3, 192
artisan skills celebrated in 15, 22, 23–4, 26
braids and belt 33–4
brush 50, 53–4
chandelier 154–6, 192
death, marriage and childbirth 2, 3, 68, 72, 110, 174–5, 182, 197–9, 211–15, 218
descriptions of 2–3, 60, 102, 151–2, 165, 176–7, 182
discussed on blogs 219–20
dog 169–70
dyes 24–5, 27, 31, 34, 89
exhibitions and review 149, 151–3, 204
fabrics 23–4, 26, 28, 29, 30–1, 33, 86–9
faces in 21–2, 28–9
footwear 27, 34, 192
furniture 66–73, 86–9, 192, 211
furs 25–6, 32–3
green gown 23, 29–34, 220
headwear 23, 27–8, 192
hung in the Sainsbury Wing 205–6
influence and inspiration of 1, 172–7, 214–21
inscriptions 2, 87, 99–100, 136–7, 178, 185, 198
on interactive CD-ROM 204–5
jewellery 35–6, 205
labelling and identification of 177–88, 210–13
looting and sale of 119, 121–2
luxury imports shown in 14
mirror in 134–8, 192, 211
in newspapers 217
in novels, stories and poems 219, 220–1
oranges 108–10, 192
outer garments 22–7, 29, 31
ownership of 37, 47, 49, 55, 56, 59, 60–2, 65, 79, 82–3, 85, 90, 93, 101, 114–15, 126, 127, 131, 133, 142, 144–5, 149
popularity and appeal of 171, 172, 187–8, 195, 197, 203–6, 210, 214–17
on radio, television and in film 203, 217, 219
reconstruction of room 220
reproductions of 165–6, 195, 203 rug 97–8
techniques used in 190, 192–4, 207–8
theories and interpretations of 3–4, 197–9, 200, 210–13, 223–4
visitor sightings of 99–107
in wartime 195–6, 199–203
window 123–5
written records of 94–6, 99–100, 115
Arnoulphin (Ernoulphin), Jehan 181
art trade and exhibitions 139–40, 143–4, 146–7, 149–53, 204
Arthur, Prince 41
Artois 6, 8
Ascham, Roger 78, 79
Athenaeum 149–50, 160, 162, 186, 187
Bassano, Jacopo da 101
Baudoin de Lannoy, Count 10, 26
Bay of Biscay 10
Bayonne 114, 117
Beaumont, Sir George 147, 158, 159
Beckford, William 101–2
Bedford Book of Hours 170
Bedford, Duchess of 33
Bellini, Giovanni, Doge Loredano 162
Berenson, Bernard 186
Berlin Gemäldegalerie 178, 180
Bernard of Clairvaux, St 124
Bertrand, Pierre-Michel 213
Beurse Square, Bruges 17, 19
Binche, Hainault 79, 80–1, 82, 100
Birtwell, Celia 214
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 152
Blake, William 146
Bodley Head (publisher) 186
Boleyn, Anne 56
Boleyn, Sir Thomas 56
Bologna 29
Bonaparte, Joseph 141
abandons his possessions at Vitoria 118–20, 126
appointed King of Naples 111–12
attempts to safeguard artworks 113–19
family background 111
as guardian of the Arnolfini portrait 114–15
looting of possessions 120–2, 126, 131, 148
retreat from Madrid 116–19
Moina, the Peasant Girl of Mont Cenis 111
Bonaparte, Lucien 104, 140
Bosch, Hieronymous 59, 92, 93, 106
Botticelli, Sandro, Venus and Mars 202
Bourbon, Jean de 41
Bouts, Dieric 187
Annunciation 156
Last Supper 155–6
Boydell, Alderman John 147
Brabant 6
Brighton Pavilion 140
British Institution 147, 149, 150, 158, 159
British Museum 158–9, 172, 180, 183
Brockwell, Maurice 186–7, 197, 199
The Pseudo-Arnolfini Portrait: a case of mistaken identity 199
Brookes, Peter 216–17
Brou 57, 65
Brown, Dave, The Arnolfini Divorce 216
Brown, Ford Madox 174–5
The Last of England 175
Take Your Son, Sir! 174–5
Browne, Anthony, Willy’s Pictures 219
Bruegel, Pieter 101, 133
Bruges 3, 5, 6, 8, 11, 45, 47, 53, 174, 176, 180, 185, 211, 220
banking and finance 18–19
character and attractions 13–14
population and wealth 15–16
reputation 16–17
trade and cosmopolitanism 14–15, 17–18, 19–20
Bruges guild of painters 138
Bruges guild of paternoster makers 50
Brussels 6, 42, 48, 54, 129, 165, 181
Bryant, Michael 144–5
Buchanan (London art dealer) 115
Buchanan, William 113, 140, 157
Buckingham, Duke of 48
Buen Retiro palace, Madrid 103, 105, 114, 117
Bullock’s Museum, Piccadilly 142
Burden, Jane 176
Burges, William 184
Burlington Magazine 197, 198
Burne-Jones, Edward 175, 176–7
Fair Rosamund and Queen Eleanor 177
Sidonia 177
Ca d’Oro, Venice 123
Campin, Robert 70, 88
Annunciation 54, 70, 72, 91
Merode Altarpiece 53
St Barbara 53
Virgin and Child before a Firescreen 70
Young Woman 28
Canaletto 158
Carlos II (d.1700) 100–1
Carlos III (d.1788) 102, 103, 114
Carlos IV (d.1819) 103, 104, 105, 112
Carlton House, Pall Mall 140–1, 142, 143–5, 160, 177
Caroline of Brunswick 141
carpets see rugs and carpets
Carracci, Agostino 150
Carson, Ciaran, Shamrock Tea 220
Carton, Abbé 185
cartoons, cartoonists 216–17
Casa del Campo, Madrid 105
Castagno, Andrea del 193
Castile 9, 13, 42, 44
Castlereagh, Lord 132
Catherine of Aragon 41
Catherine, St 22, 30
Cavalcaselle, Giovanni Battista 179, 180, 182–3, 184, 211
Caxton, William 15
Cenami, Giovanna 211
chandelier 154–6, 208, 216, 219
Charles the Bold (1433-77) 38, 61, 67, 72
Charles V (1500-58) 93
abdication and retirement to Spain 82, 83–4
as art patron 47
childhood in Mechelen 45–6, 57
death of 85
dismisses and reinstates his aunt Marguerite 58, 59–60
elected emperor 75
employs Don Diego 47–8, 56
health of 82
peripatetic existence 90
puts Ferdinand in charge of Austrian domains 76
relationship with his sister Marie 77–8, 79
supports Don Diego’s son Felipe 48
Charles VIII 57
Charterhouse, Brussels 91
Chastellain, Georges 7
Chaucer, Geoffrey, The Canterbury Tales 16, 26, 30, 33, 52
Chenany, Jeanne de 184, 185
Christine de Pisan 34
Cigales 84, 85
Ciudad Rodrigo 121
Clark, Kenneth ‘Napoleon’ 200, 201, 202–3, 205, 223
The Earlier Italian Schools 200
More Details from Pictures in the National Gallery 200
One Hundred Details from Pictures in the National Gallery 200
Clark, Ossie 214
Claude Lorraine 158
Cloisters, New York 53
Coecke, Pieter 81
Colbourne, Lord 161
Cole, Henry (‘Felix Summerly’) 166–7
Interior of a Room with Figures 177–8
Constable, John 143–4, 146
Contarini family 123
Corn Laws (1815) 127–8
Correggio, Antonio Allegri da 140, 150
Holy Family 162
Cortez, Hernando 63
Coudenberg palace, Brussels 79, 81, 90
Council of Trent 92
court etiquette 66–7, 68, 70, 72–3, 87
Coxcie, Michiel 81, 91, 95, 165
Cranach the Elder, Lucas 150
The Mirror 217
Crimea 183
Crochant, Monsieur de 115
Crowe, Joseph Archer 179–84, 185, 211
The Early Flemish Painters 183–4, 186
Cruikshank, George 141
Cumberland, Richard 101–2, 104, 105
Anecdotes of Eminent Painters of Spain 101
Cuyp, Albert 158
Daily News 179, 180
Darley, George 149–52, 159, 160, 162–3
David, Gerard 91
Marriage at Cana 107
Davies, Martin 200, 201, 202–3, 223
De Beatis, Antonio 63, 64
Delaroche, Paul 179
Delicate Investigation (1806) 141
Denmark, King of 32
Denon, Dominique Vivant (1747-1825) 106–7, 113, 114, 116, 118, 132, 139, 157, 161
Descamps, Jean-Baptiste, Lives of the Flemish, German and Dutch Painters 104, 106
Desperate Housewives (TV series) 219
Dickens, Charles 179
Dijon 6, 11, 181
Dimier, Louis 197, 198
Dinant 155
Dobany, Sandor, The Visitors 215
dogs 169–70, 174, 176, 177, 192, 209, 216
Doyle, Arthur Conan 220
Brigadier Gerard 126
Dresden 22, 30, 136, 149
Dubroeucq, Jacques 80
Dunnett, Dorothy, Niccolo Rising 221
Dunst, Kirsten 220
Durcan, Paul, ‘The Arnolfini Marriage’ 221
Dürer, Albrecht 64, 101, 137, 150, 197
dyes 24–5
Eastlake, Charles 160–1, 162, 167–8, 177–8, 181–2
Materials for a History of Oil Painting 167
Eastlake, Lady Elizabeth 178
Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly 142
El Bodon, battle of (1811) 127
El Pardo palace, Madrid 93
Elba 128
Eleanor of France 80, 82, 84
Elias the cloth dyer 15
Elizabeth I 78
Elizabeth II 204
Elizabeth, Lady Holland 105, 112
Elkins, James 207
Emin, Tracey 204
Escorial 92–3, 101, 105, 115
Eve, Trevor 203
Eyck, Hubert van 94, 163
Eyck, Jan van
acquires his own residence 12
architectural motifs 71–2
believed to be inventor of oil painting 93–4, 102, 104, 107, 142, 150, 192
diplomatic and ‘secret’ missions 9
employed by the Duke of Burgundy 5, 8–10, 11–12
expedition to Iberian peninsula 9–10
motto 175
replicas of works by 91, 95, 146, 150, 159, 165
salary 11
skill and reputation 207–9
tasks and commissions 8–9, 11, 19–20
techniques used 189–94, 208
works admired by Dürer 64
works considered collectable and of merit 90, 93, 139
works by:
Dresden Madonna 22, 30, 136, 138
The Ghent Altarpiece 22, 26, 30, 54, 70, 72, 91, 94, 95, 106, 109–10, 136, 138, 139, 146, 151, 159, 165, 171, 173, 178, 180
Ince Hall Madonna 69, 110
Lucca Madonna 20, 98, 110
Madonna in an Interior 72
Madonna at the Fountain 59
Madonna with Canon van der Paele 72, 81, 98, 106, 136, 173
Madonna in a Church 59
Madonna of Jan Vos 98
Man with the Red Turban 26, 168
Portrait of the Artist’s Wife 173
Portrait of Jan de Leeuw 107
Portrait of a Portuguese Lady 47, 49
St Jerome in his Study 53, 124
Timotheos 168
The Virgin with Chancellor Rolin 107, 137
Virgin of the Fountain 53
Woman at her Toilette 110, 125
Eyck, Margaret van 199, 213
Fabriano, Gentile da 208
fabrics 3, 11, 14, 19, 23–4, 89, 181
fairs 17–18
Falcon (ship) 83
Farington, Joseph 142, 143, 144, 147
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett 197
Fazio, Bartolomeo 9, 93, 95, 134
De Viris Illustribus 208–9
Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino 20
Felix Summerly’s Handbook for the National Gallery (Felix Summerly aka Henry Cole) 166
Ferdinand of Austria 76–7
Ferdinand II of Aragon (1452-1516) 39, 40, 42–5, 48, 57, 59
Ferdinand VII of Spain 112, 131, 132
Filarete, Antonio, De Architectura 209
films 1, 219
Flanders 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 18, 37–8, 41, 43, 45–6, 64, 67, 89, 106, 160, 169, 212, 220
Florence, Florentines 18, 19, 24, 34, 95, 186
Flushing 41, 83
Folembray 82
footwear 176, 192
Fortnightly Review 212–13
Framed (BBC comedy drama) 203
Francia 149
François I 60, 80
Frederick, Emperor 38
Frederick-William III of Prussia 139
furniture 177
bed 72–3, 86–9
bench and settle 69–70
chair 70–2, 192
chests 68–9
furs 25–6, 32–3, 46
Fuseli, Henry 146
Gainsborough, Thomas 150
Garibaldi, Giuseppe 180
Geest, Cornelis van der 209
Genoa, Genoese 18, 19, 20, 33
George IV 140–6, 147, 157, 160
George VI 203–4
Ghent 5, 11, 64, 77, 95, 146, 173, 180
Giudiccioni family 19
Giustiniani family 20
Glay, André le 181
Godoy, Manuel 103, 104
Goering, Hermann 199
Gossart, Jan 91
Goya, Francisco 102, 103
GQ magazine 217
Granada 9, 42, 44
Grant, Hugh 217
Great War 195–6
Greater London Authority’s London Partnership Register 218
Grien, Hans Baldung 137
Groeningemuseum, Bruges 72
Guadalajara 84
Guardian 1
Guevara, Don Diego de (d.1520) 63
as ambassador and spy at Ferdinand’s court 43–5
appointed councillor and maistre d’hostel to Charles V 45–8
birth and working life 37–8
death of 48
enters household of Philip the Handsome 38–40
escorts Marguerite back to Spain 40–3
family background 38–9
gives Arnolfini portrait to Marguerite 55, 61, 95, 181
as patron and collector of the arts 41, 46–7, 49
Guevara family of Santander, Castile 38, 39
Guevara, Felipe (d.1563) de 41, 45, 48, 92
Commentarios de la Pintura 92
Guevara, Inigo de 38
Guevara, Don Ladron de 38–9, 42
Guevara, Pedro de 38, 39, 43, 45, 48
Guicciardini, Lodovico 52, 94
Account of a Tour of the Netherlands 94
Habitat 216
Hamilton, Christine 217
Hamilton, Neil 217
Hamilton, Richard 214
Hampton Court palace 127
Hanseatic League 14, 53, 190
Haworth, Julia 217
Hay, James
acquires the Arnolfini portrait 127–8, 131
family background 126
leaves the Arnolfini with a friend 145–6
made Companion of the Bath 133
military career 126–7
peacetime duties 128
sells the Arnolfini 133, 140, 142–5, 148–9, 153, 162, 164–5
sent to Ireland 145, 147
sits for Salter’s Waterloo Banquet painting 147–8
wounded at Battle of Waterloo 129–31
Hay, William 130–1
Heere, Lucas de 94, 95
Hemessen, Catherine van 84
Henri II 81, 82
Henry IV 32
Henry V 25
Henry VII 39, 41, 43, 46, 58
Henry VIII 9, 48, 60
Herbert, Susan, The Cat’s Gallery of Western Art 218–19
Hesdin 6, 8
Himmler, Heinrich 199
Hitler, Adolf 199–200
Hockney, David 1
Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy 214
Secret Knowledge 208
Hogarth, William 150, 158
Holbein, Hans 9
The Ambassadors 216
Holy Spirit (ship) 83
Hoppner, John 141
Horenbout, Gerard 63
Hounslow 127, 128
Hue de Boulogne 8
Hume, Joseph 166
Hunt, William Holman 172, 173
The Awakening Conscience 173–4
Dolce Far Niente 174
The Lady of Shalott 174
The Lost Child 174
Illustrated London News 164, 166, 183
illustrators, illustration 218–19
Into the Mirror (film) 219
Isabel of Portugal, Infanta (1397-1472) 9, 10, 67, 72
Isabella of Castile (1451-1504) 39, 40, 42, 43, 44, 47, 57, 133
Isabella (niece of Marguerite) 64
Jacopo de Barbari 63
Januszczak, Waldemar 204
Jean II, King 6
Jehan de Boulogne 8
jewellery 35–6
John, Duke of Bedford 170
John of Portugal, King 9
John ‘the Fearless’, 2nd Duke of Burgundy 6
John ‘the Pitiless’, Duke of Bavaria 5
Jourdan, General 117, 118
Juan de Flandes 59, 91, 133
Juan, Infante (d.1497) 40, 41, 57
Juana ‘the Mad’, Infanta (1479-1555) 40, 41–3, 44, 45, 46, 74, 83
Jutsham, Benjamin 142
Kahlo, Frida 214
Koons, Jeff, Bunny 220
La Granja palace, San Ildefonso 133
Laborde, Comte Léon de 180–1 and note, 182, 185
Lalaing, Antoine de 42
Lamb, Charles 146, 149
Lamb, Mary 146
Lancet 145
Landry, Chevalier de la Tour 29, 137
Lane, John 186
Lansdowne, Marquis of 161
Laredo 84
Lawrence, Sir Thomas 141, 142, 143–4, 145, 147, 159
League of Cambrai (1508) 59
Leckey, Mark 220
Lee, Arthur 201
Leeuw, Jan de 36
Leith-Hay, Andrew 117, 119
Lemaire de Belges, Jean 189
L’amant vert’ 62
Leo of Rozmital 16
Leon 44
Leonardo da Vinci 140, 150, 151
Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John 204
Lewis, Katie 177
Ligorano, Norah (with Marshall Reese),van Eyck’s Mirror 220
Lille 6, 8, 10, 11, 181
Linnell, John 146, 166
Lippi, Fra Filippo 150
Liverpool, Lord 158
Livre des Mestiers (Book of the Trades) 15, 51
Lomelli, Battista 209
Lomellini family 20
London Gazette Supplement 130
London Underground Electric Railway Company 196
Lords Commissioners of the Treasury 161, 162
Louis of Hungary 74, 75
Louis XII 42
Louis XIV 101
Louis XVIII 131
Louvain 156
Louvre, Paris (Musée Napoléon) 79, 103, 106–7, 114, 116, 132, 137, 139, 157, 161, 173
Luard, John 129, 129–30
Lucca, Lucchese 18, 19, 23, 33, 35, 47, 181, 185
Luis of Aragon 63–4
Lullier, Etienne 79
McLynn, Pauline, The Time is Now 220–1
Madrid 22, 93, 99, 105, 112, 114, 116, 131, 199
Mail on Sunday 217
Manchester Guardian 187, 195, 199, 203
Mander, Karel van 95–6, 182, 185
Lives of the Illustrious Netherlandish and German Painters 95, 104, 178
Manet, Edouard, Olympe 177
Manod slate quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog 201, 203, 221
Margaret of Antioch, St 62, 71, 211
Margaret of Flanders 6
Margaret, Princess 204
Margaret of York (1446-1503) 38, 39, 57, 72
Marguerite of Austria (1480-1530) 47
acquires Arnolfini portrait 49, 55, 56, 59, 60–2, 95, 174, 181, 182, 189, 199
art collector and patron 56, 58, 59, 60–3, 81, 105
birth of 38
collections inherited by Philip II 82, 85, 90, 92
death of 65, 77
employs Don Diego as ambassador 46
finds position for Don Diego’s niece 55–6
as La Grande Mère de l’Europe 57–9, 64–5, 77
marriages 40–1, 55, 57, 58, 61, 75
as princess pawn 56–7
promised in marriage to Henry VII 43
similarities with her niece Marie of Hungary 74–5, 78
Maria Luisa of Parma 103
Marie of Burgundy (1457-82) 38, 40, 45, 56, 61, 62, 68
Marie of Hungary (1505-58) 65
acquires Arnolfini portrait 81, 82–3, 94–5, 104, 174, 182, 185, 199
appointed regent of the Netherlands 77–83
death of 85
description of 78–9
escapes to Vienna 76–7
family background 74–5
grand living 79–80
marriage 75–6
as patron and collector of the arts 80–3, 84, 90, 100, 115
resignation and move to Spain 83–5
Mariemont hunting lodge, Hainault 80, 82
Marlborough, Duke of 129
Mary, Queen 204
Mary Tudor, ‘Bloody Mary’ 83
Mary Tudor, Queen of France 48
Maryborough, Lord 132
Masaccio 206
Matsys, Quentin, Lamentations 91
Maximilian, Emperor (1459-1519) 38–9, 40, 46, 55–6, 57, 60, 61, 64, 74
Mazzini, Giuseppe 180
Mechelen, Brabant 46, 56, 58, 60, 63, 64, 74, 75, 77, 81
Medici bank, Bruges 19
Medici family 94
Medici, Lorenzo de 20, 157, 211
Meit, Conrad 61, 64, 81
Melbourne 69
Melito, Miot de 115, 118
Memling, Hans 59, 104, 149, 173, 175, 187
Last Judgement 107
Mérimée, Léonor, On Oil Painting 150
Michelangelo Buonarroti 92, 173
The Entombment 197
Milan, Duke of 33
Millais, John Everett 172
Miller, Annie 174
Miller, Jonathan 204
Ministry of Information 200
mirrors 134–8, 174–5, 184, 192, 208, 209, 211, 214, 219, 220
Moctezuma 63
Monteagle, Lord 161
Mor, Antonio 81
Morning Chronicle 150, 179
Moro, Antonio 91
Morris, William 175–6
La Belle Iseult 176
Munro, J.J. 89
The Muppet Show (TV series) 1, 217
Murillo, Bartolomé 113, 114
St John 162
Murray, John 183–4
Musée Napoléon see Louvre, Paris
Museum of Chips, Bruges 19
Museums and Galleries Air Raid
Precautions Committee 200
Napier, William 118
Naples 95, 111
Napoleon Bonaparte 103–4, 105, 106, 111, 113–14, 116, 127, 128, 129, 131, 133, 140, 142
National Art Collections Fund 197
National Art Library, South Kensington Museum 186
National Gallery
acquisitions policy 159–61
buys the Arnolfini portrait 1, 3, 102, 153, 161–7
cleaning programme 167–8
Duveen gallery 204, 205
establishment of 157–9
expands Flemish and German holdings 167, 168
London Underground advertising 216
named paintings in 26, 28, 31, 36, 53, 70
‘Painting in Focus’ exhibitions 204
‘Picture of the Month’ scheme 202, 223
produces interactive CD-ROM 204–5
recreation of costume from masterpieces in 29, 220
Sainsbury Wing 205–6
urged to extend its range of works 150, 152
visitors to 159, 168, 171–2, 202
Mirror Image exhibition 204
Renaissance Faces: van Eyck to Titian exhibition 205
Twenty-Four Masterpieces publication 204
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 201
National Portrait Gallery 148
BP Portrait Award 215
celebrates centenary of its foundation 196–7
refurbishment and exhibitions 204
Sainsbury Wing 205–6
use of interactive CD-ROM 204–5
in wartime 195–6, 199–204
Nieuwenhuys, Chrétien-Jean 131, 139, 165
Nieuwenhuys, Lambert-Jean 139
Nive, battle of (1813) 127
Nivelle, battle of (1813) 127
Notre-Dame de Sablon, Brussels 48
Observer 152, 196
oranges 108–10, 176, 177, 192
Order of Calatrava 46
Order of the Golden Fleece 38, 64
Order of Teutonic Knights 53
Orley, Bernard van ‘Raphael of the North’ 63, 64, 81, 82–3
Orpen, William, The Mirror 214
Ottaviano, Cardinal 20, 209
Oudenarde 129
Ovid 102
Metamorphoses 100
The Art of Love 100
Pächt, Otto 212
Paele, Canon van der 26
Palace of Westminster 161
Palacio Real, Madrid 101, 102, 133
Pall Mall Gazette 187
Palmer, Samuel 146
Panofsky, Erwin 197–9, 212
Paris 19, 106, 109, 114, 116, 176, 179
Paston, Margaret 31, 33
paternosters 50–2
Peel, Sir Robert 158, 159, 161, 165
Peninsular campaign (1808-14) 116–22, 126–8, 129, 133, 140
Penrhyn Castle 201
Peutin, John 36
Philibert, Duke of Savoy (d.1504) 57, 61, 62, 64
Philip II (1527-98)
inherits art collection 82, 85, 90–1, 92
marriages and children 90
as owner of the Arnolfini portrait 82, 85, 90, 92, 99
as patron and collector of the arts 91–3, 100, 105, 115
prayers said for 105
youthful heir to Charles V 80
Philip IV (d.1665) 100
Philip ‘the Bastard of Burgundy’ 42
Philip ‘the Bold’, 1st Duke of Burgundy (1342-1404) 6, 52, 87
Philip ‘the Good’, 3rd Duke of Burgundy (1396-1467) 23, 33, 48, 56, 80, 124, 135
bastard son sired by 42
death of 45, 52
description of 6, 7
employs van Eyck as official painter 5, 8–9
family background 5–6
itinerant court 6, 9–11
marriage to Isabel 72
network of spies and messengers 9
as patron of the arts 8–11, 19–20, 59, 63, 81
preference for sombre clothing 6, 23, 25
wealth of 10–11, 155
Philip ‘the Handsome’, Archduke of Austria (1478-1506) 38
acquires Isabella’s kingdoms 41, 43–4
as art patron 47
death and burial 45, 57, 74
employs Don Diego 39, 43–5, 55
marriage 40, 83
royal progress 42–3
Philip V 101
Philippa of Lancaster 32–3
Piero della Francesca 206
Piles, Roger de 136
Pinnock, Jonathan, The Amazing Arnolfi ni and His Wife (short story) 219
Piombo, Sebastian del 115
Pisanello, Antonio 208
Pitt, William ‘the Younger’ 103
Plowright, Piers 219
Poitiers, Aliénor de 39
Portugal, Queen of 84
Poussin, Nicolas 158
Poynter, Edward 187
Prado, Madrid 53, 88, 114, 132, 156
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 172–7
Princenhof palace, Bruges 11
Puebla, Rodrigo Gonzalez de 46, 58
Pugin, A.W.N. 152, 184–5
Quatre Bras 129
Quelviz, Jakob 99–100
Raphael of Urbino 83, 92, 102, 115, 116, 140, 150, 151, 158, 173, 184, 209
Rapondi family 19
Rattler magazine 217
Rawlins, Francis 200, 201
Reade, Charles, The Cloister and the Hearth 184
Reese, Marshall (with Norah Ligorano), van Eyck’s Mirror 220
reflectograms 192
Rembrandt van Rijn 145, 150, 158, 203
Jewish Rabbi 162
Renaissance Secrets (TV series) 219
Reynolds, Sir Joshua 141, 150, 158
Discourses 152
Richard II 87
Richmond, Duchess of 129
Rivera, Diego 214
Robinson, Henry Crabb 146, 159
Roche, Oisin 214
Rolin, Chancellor 25
The Romance of the Rose (13th century poem) 211
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 172, 173, 176
Ecce Ancilla Domini 173
Found 173
Rothenstein, William 197
Rothschild, Baron Ferdinand de 188
Rowson, Martin 216
Royal Academy 141, 147, 152, 159, 172, 173
Royal College of Art 197
Royal Watercolour Society 176
Rubens, Peter Paul 101, 106, 145, 150, 158
Judgement of Paris 162
rugs and carpets 3, 97–8
Ruskin, John 167, 172
St Bavo’s Cathedral, Ghent 9, 64, 139, 173
St Donatian, Bruges 81, 106
Saint Laurent, Yves 220
Salamanca, Battle of (1812) 133
Salter, William, The Waterloo Banquet 147–8
Santander 41
Santi, Giovanni 209
Santiago de Compostela 9
Sarto, Andrea Del 150
Savoy, Duke of 23, 25, 33
Savoy Hotel, Mechelen 58, 79
Schumacher, Bernard 195
Scott, Margaret 28
Sebastiani, General 115
Second World War 199–202
Seguier, William 132, 133, 141, 147, 153, 159, 160, 162, 165
Seidel, Linda 213
Select Committee on the Management of the National Gallery (1852-53) 168, 183
Seville 109
Sewell, Brian 205
Shotz, Alyson, Arnolfini 360 Degrees x 12 214
Simancas 45
Sittow, Michel 46–7, 63
Sittow, Nichel 91
Sluys 10, 14–15, 17, 18, 108
social hierarchy 22–3, 34–5
Solly, Edward 139
Soult, Marshal 113, 115
Southampton 41
Spanish Academy of Madrid 113
Spanish National Archives, Simancas 185
spies 9, 43, 45, 127
Stadel Museum, Frankfurt 72
Stadthuis (Bruges) 9
Steen, Jan, The Scool 152
Stepback dance company, The Peach and the Pair 220
Stothard, Thomas 150
Suleiman the Magnificent 76
Sullivan, Benjamin 215
Sunday Times 204
Sutherland, Duke of 161
Tafur, Pero 13–14, 15, 17, 108
Tate Britain 214
Tate Modern 218
Ron and Roger exhibition 218
techniques 189–94
television and radio 1, 203, 217, 219
Teniers, David 101, 133, 150
Thomas, Jack, Arnolfini: Reflections in a Mirror 220
timber 19, 190–1
The Times 135, 148, 167, 186, 188, 195, 217
Titian 81, 82, 93, 100, 105, 116, 140, 184
Today programme (BBC radio) 217
Tomkinson, Captain 127, 129
Tordesillas fortress 74
Touraine, Duke of 26
Tournai 54
trade 14–15, 17–18, 19–20
Trenta, Constanza 211
Trevelyan, C.E. 161
Turin-Milan Hours (illustrated manuscript) 170
Turk, Gavin, Epiphany 214
Turkey, Turks 75, 76, 98
Turner, J.M.W. 152
Turnhout palace 79, 80, 82, 90
Uccello, Paolo, Battle of San Romano 197
United Nations 218
Urbino, Duke of 209
V for Vendetta (film) 219
Vaernewyck, Marcus van, The Mirror of Netherlandish Antiquity 94–5
Valladolid 84, 85, 116, 117
van Dyck, Sir Anthony 150
Vasari, Giorgio 20, 93–4, 95, 107
Lives of the Most Excellent Architects, Painters and Sculptors 94, 192
Velázquez, Diego 1, 101, 105, 113, 115, 116, 135, 140, 161, 203
Philip IV 197
Rokeby Venus 202, 216
Venice, Venetians 10, 18, 19, 24, 33, 35, 59, 123, 135
Vermeer, Jan 204, 208
Vidt, Jodocus 26
Vienna 75, 76, 107, 190
Villafranca, Treaty of (1506) 44
Virgin Mary 25, 47, 51, 54, 59, 61, 69, 70, 88, 97–8, 109, 138, 173, 213
Visitors’ Guide to London (1843) 171–2
Vitoria, Battle of (1813) 117, 120, 126, 127, 131, 142, 148
Voltaire, F.M.A. de 102
Volto Santo 19
Vydt chapel, Ghent 95
Waagen, Gustav 181
Treasures of Art in Great Britain 178
Warbeck, Perkin 39
Wardrop, James 145–6, 148–9, 153, 160, 162
Washington National Gallery of Art 35, 46
Waterloo, Battle of (1815) 3, 129–31, 133, 140, 147
Weale, William Henry James 184–6, 187, 197, 199
Hubert and Jan van Eyck: their life and work 186
Notes sur Jan van Eyck 185
Wellesley, Sir Henry 132–3
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of 115, 116, 117, 120, 126, 127, 132–3, 141, 142, 143, 150
Wells, William 161
Weyden, Rogier van der 31, 46, 156, 175, 208
Adoration of the Magi 53
Annunciation (Louvre) 88, 155
Annunciation (Prado) 88
Calvary 91
Descent from the Cross 59, 81, 91
Magdalene Reading 53
Portrait of a Lady (c.1460) 35–6
Portrait of a Lady (c.1460-9) 36
Wheeler, Charles 202
Wheeler, Private William 121
Whistler, J.A. McNeill 177
Wilde, Oscar 220
Wilenski, R.H., Dutch Painting 208
Wilkie, David 145, 158
Wilkins, William 159
William of Stranton, Prior 30–1
Wimbledon School of Art 29, 220
windows 123–5
Windsor Castle 140, 141, 147
Witt, Sir Robert 197
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 220
Wolsey, Cardinal 48, 60
Wornum, Ralph 178
Wouvermans, Phillips 101, 150
Yuste, San Geronimo de 84
Zahalka, Anne, Marriage of Convenience 214