although he produced most of his best works for other clients, he would forever be linked with Burgundy. Van Eyck was remembered in courts all across Europe as “an exquisite master in the art of painting,” while other artists—even Italians—would travel hundreds of miles to the Burgundian-controlled towns of Flanders and the Low Countries to study his work, hoping to learn how to re-create his greatest tricks.32 This was, in the end, why Philip the Good had hired him.
