The BBC reserves the right to edit comments that are published. We will probably never know what Jan van Eyck thought of the Moon - none of his notebooks survive, only his paintings.ĭisclaimer: The BBC will put up as many of your comments as possible but we cannot guarantee that all e-mails will be published. He wanted to know what it was really like. Leonardo was interested in it as a place. They have been called a lunar "field sketch" and clearly represent a new phase of mapping the Moon. Leonardo's drawings are clearly an advance on van Eyck's. News Politics Science Education Housing Immigration Criminal Justice Silicon Valley Forum The California Report. It is small but it is painted naturalistically and some surface features can be recognised. In the crucifixion scene a pale Moon is visible on the right-hand side of the canvas. He was among the first to allow his characters to cast shadows. Van Eyck was perfecting painting in oils and breaking free from centuries old painting conventions. "This painting of the crucifixion overturns a thousand years of traditionally painting this scene," says Mr Montgomery. Using small circles to represent Earth and the Moon, sketch a scale model of the Earth-Moon orbital system below. This means you could fit approximately 30 Earths in the space between Earth and the Moon. Perhaps the best painting of the Moon he did was in his "Crucifixion". If we divide the distance between Earth and the Moon (384,000 km) by Earths diameter, we get 384,400/12,756 30. In his revolutionary paintings van Eyck depicted the Moon four times and painted it the way it really appeared. He says it was Jan van Eyck (1385? - 1441) who first accurately depicted the Moon, over a hundred years before Leonardo's notebook sketch. Leonardo da Vinci's sketch was 100 years later He is geologist by training and is writing a book called "The Moon and the Western Imagination," (University of Arizona Press). That is what the history books say.īut they should be re-written according to Mr Montgomery. It is proving to be quite a year for rewriting the books about what we know of mankind's attempts to chart the Moon.Įarlier this year BBC News Online caused a sensation when we published details of what appears to be a 5,000 year-old map of the Moon, carved into rock inside a Neolithic passage tomb in Ireland.īefore the stone map was revealed it was generally thought that the oldest known drawing of the Moon was by Leonardo da Vinci in about 1504. The earliest known drawing of the Moon is in a painting by Dutch master Jan van Eyck painted nearly 600 years ago, according to scientist Scott Montgomery of Seattle, USA.ĭo you know of an older picture of the Moon? Email here. The date of the first known drawing of the Moon has been pushed back by more than a century. Van Eyck's 'The Crucifixion' with the Moon on the rightīy BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse Thursday, JPublished at 10:43 GMT 11:43 UK The Face in the Moon: Drawings and Prints by Louise Nevelson is organized by Clémence White, curatorial assistant.BBC News | Sci/Tech | The earliest drawing of the Moon? She believed that art could reorient one’s relationship to the built and natural world, challenging us to see our environments differently through her work. Interested in the physical constraints of objects, Nevelson sought to transform the materials that she used and the subjects that she depicted. Her paper collages, like her sculptures assembled from wooden objects, reconfigure the disparate materials from which they are composed, including scraps of paper and foil, into unified, unexpected compositions. In her prints, she layered scraps of fabric to create deeply textured environments containing mystical figures and architectural forms. Nevelson frequently used unconventional or recycled materials. Drawn entirely from the Whitney’s collection, this exhibition follows her work in drawing, printing, and collage, from her early focus on the human body through her progression into abstraction. Louise Nevelson (1899–1988), an artist best known for her monochromatic wooden sculptures, produced a distinctive body of works on paper over the course of her long career.
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