Editing Jan van Eyck (section)

===Turin-Milan Hours: Hand G===
[[File:Eyckbaptism.png|thumb|left|upright=1.4|''Bas-de-page'' of the ''[[Baptism of Jesus|Baptism of Christ]]'', Hand G, Turin. Milan Filio 93v, Inv 47.]]

Since 1901 Jan van Eyck has often been credited as the anonymous artist known as Hand G of the [[Turin-Milan Hours]].{{efn-ua|It is also possible that Hand G was a follower of Van Eyck's. See Campbell (1998), 174}} If this is correct, the Turin illustrations are the only known works from his early period; according to Thomas Kren the earlier dates for Hand G precede any known panel painting in an Eyckian style, which "raise[s] provocative questions about the role that manuscript illumination may have played in the vaunted verisimilitude of Eyckian oil painting."<ref>Kren (2003), 83</ref>

The evidence for attributing van Eyck rests on part on the fact that although the figures are mostly of the [[International Gothic]] type, they reappear in some of his later work. In addition, there are coats of arms connected with the Wittelsbach family with whom he had connections in the Hague, while some of the figures in the miniatures echo the horsemen in the ''Ghent Altarpiece''.<ref>Borchert (2008), 83</ref>

Most of the Turin-Milan Hours were destroyed by fire in 1904 and survive only in photographs and copies; only three pages at most attributed to Hand G now survive, those with large miniatures of the ''[[Nativity of St. John the Baptist|Birth of John the Baptist]]'', the ''Finding of the [[True Cross]]'' and the ''Office of the Dead'' (or ''[[Requiem Mass]]''), with the ''bas-de-page'' miniatures and initials of the first and last of these{{efn-ua|''bas-de-page'' refers to often unframed images illuminating the bottom of a page.<ref>'[https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/GlossB.asp Catalogue of illuminated manuscripts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127121248/https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/GlossB.asp |date=27 January 2023 }}'. [[British Library]]. Retrieved 9 November 2018</ref>}} The ''Office of the Dead'' is often seen as recalling Jan's 1438–1440 ''[[Madonna in the Church]]''.<ref>Borchert (2008), 80</ref> Four more were lost in 1904: all the elements of the pages with the miniatures called ''The Prayer on the Shore'' (or ''Duke William of Bavaria at the Seashore'', the ''Sovereign's prayer'' etc.), and the night-scene of the ''[[Betrayal of Christ]]'' (which was already described by Durrieu as "worn" before the fire), the ''[[Coronation of the Virgin]]'' and its bas-de-page, and the large picture only of the seascape ''Voyage of St Julian & St Martha''.{{efn-ua|Kren (2003), 84, note 1. Châtelet, 34–35 and 194–196&nbsp;– all except the ''Coronation'' are illustrated there. The titles vary between authors. Châtelet additionally credits Hand G with parts of ''The Intercession of Christ and the Virgin'' in the Louvre (p.195)}}