Jan van Eyck and Portugal's "Illustrious Generation"

Barbara von Barghahn is Professor of Art History at George Washington University and a specialist in the art history of Portugal, Spain, and their colonial dominions, as well as Flanders. In 1993, she was conferred O Grão Comendador in the Portuguese Order of Prince Henry the Navigator. She has spent nearly a decade completing research about Jan van Eyck's diplomatic visits to the Iberian Peninsula.

• Preface Introduction: Jan Van Eyck Circa 1425-1427; Historical Prologue: The Hague and Flanders; Jan van Eyck's 1425-1426 "Secret Journey"; The 1427 "Secret Voyage" To Aragon The 1428-1429 "Secret Voyage" to Portugal; A Mission on Behalf of the Duke of Burgundy; Polemical Portraits of the Infanta ; Jan's Grand Tour: Lisbon to Porto; Houses of Guimarães and Braga's Monte Espinho; Parenthetical Thoughts about Jan van Eyck's Diplomatic ExcursionsThe Fountain Of Life (1429) and the Avis Dynastic House; Portraits of King João I and Lusitania's Princes; The Wing Panels of the Fountain of Life: ; Jan van Eyck's Diptych of the Crucifixion and the Last Judgment ; The Chivalric Orders and the Defense of the Faith; The Portuguese Elevation of Charlemagne; Reflections upon the New Jerusalem The Lisbon of King João I and Sintra, The "Queen's Estate"; The Monarch's Palaces in Lisbon; The St. Martin Palace of Prince Duarte; Prince Henrique's Houses near St. Vincent Behind the Walls ; Prince Pedro's Estaus Palace; The Houses of Princes João and Fernando; The Residence of Count-Duke Afonso; The Avis-Lancastrian Palace of Sintra: Templar and Arthurian Ideals; The "Swan Hall" or Sala dos Infantes; The "Magpie Hall" and Alchemical Emblems; A Royal Chapel for Crusader Knights: Pageants and the Complexion of Society ; The Winds of Pentecostal Spirit: Sintra's Royal Apartments Isabel of Portugal and the Lion of Flanders; Departure from Portugal: An Infanta's Reception in Flanders; Festivities in Bruges; 1430 and the Brabantine Inheritance of Philip the Good; A "House of Marvels" in Artois: Hesdin and Jan van Eyck's "Ducal Hunts" ; The Versailles Hunting Party; Thoughts about Poetry and Music The Ghent Altarpiece (1432); Medieval Ghent: A City of Political Islands; Philip the Good's Castles at Ghent; Sint-Janskerk and its Patrons: The Ghent Altarpiece and its Specters; The Exterior Panels of the Ghent Altarpiece; A "Tabernacle of God" with Man; Windows unto GhentThe Grail Quest & Chivalric Ideals: Counts Of Flanders & Paladins Of Lusitania; Throne for the "Dayspring on High": Adoration of the Lamb; The Tree of Knowledge; Cavalcade of Just Judges; Cavalcade of Holy Knights: Princes of Ceuta; In the Company of Royal Warriors; Holy Hermits and Pilgrims; Imitating the Heroes of Camelot; The Cistercian Ideal of the Grail Knight in Portugal Circa 1437: Jan Van Eyck's "Secret Mission" To Portugal ; The Templar Citadel of Tomar: Romanesque unto Renaissance; King João I's Batalha Abbey 1429-1450; St. Barbara with her Tower: Batalha's Capelas Imperfeitas and a View of Lisbon; Tangier and the Sword of St. Catherine: The Dresden Triptych ; A Setting for an Ex-Voto Triptych: The Chapel of St. Michael in the Lisbon; Castle of St. George "Our Lady's Knights" & The House Of Avis; Prince Henrique the Navigator, the Moroccan Campaign & Franciscan Spirituality ; Prince Pedro, the Kingdom of Aragon and St. George the Dragon Slayer; Crucible of Wisdom: King Duarte and the Diptych of the Madonna in a Church; The Lisbon Cathedral of Santa Maria and the Chapel of St. Vincent Miscellanea: Reflections Within a Dark Glass ; A Lost Triptych and the Lomellini of Lisbon and Madeira; Philip the Good's Mappamundi; The Ghent "Hell" Altar Frontal & the Passion Panels of Lodewijk Allyncbrood ; A Portuguese Disciple of Jan van Eyck in Bruges ; Holy Kinship, Holy Face: Imaging an Icon for the Avis Court ; Ecclesia-Eleousa and a Metaphorical "Cloth of Honor": Magnifying Feminine Virtú Conclusion: Ecclesia and an Age of Crusaders; Shield, Spurs and Sword for La Sainte-Église: Revisiting the Theme of the Grail Banquet; and Knightly Entrêmets; The 1454 "Feast of the Pheasant" marking the Birthday of Duchess Isabel of Burgundy; In the Company of St. Thekla: A Last Glimpse of the Portuguese Infanta Index