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I think I should go and see if I could find dear old Hodgkin--the man who writes books about Van Eyck, you know.

Camera (color, widescreen), Stefan Bijnen; editor, Eddy Zoutendijk; music, Van Dik Hout, Jina Sumedi; art director, Daniel Nieman; sound (Dolby), Ferry de Pater; line producers, Daya Cahen, Trent Plus; assistant director, Jaap van Eyck. Reviewed at Rotterdam Film Festival (Main Program), Feb.

The current in-house showcase, "From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art" may be the most spectacular and thoughtful to date.

The following pages focus on Jan van Eyck, the Flemish master who, along with his brother Hubert, was once popularly credited with inventing oil painting.

There, Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, and others pioneered the use of oil paints in special binders, which they applied to a glowing white ground on wood panel.

Neither a historical novel nor a conventional novel, Van Eyck et les rivieres cuts across the linear fabric of prose, alternating narrative chapters and introspective poetry, linguistic fireworks and philosophical musings, a poetic travelogue chronicling towns and rivers, stone and brick, medieval roads and the modern freeway.

Ten Eyck of Albany, arrived in the regiment's camp near Falmouth, Virginia, bearing a commission dated December 15, 1862, as major of the 154th New York!

Small is beautiful, as advertising slogans so tiresomely tell us, but d is unlikely that a show as small as the Jan van Eyck exhibition which opens at the National Gallery in London on the 15th, will be viewed as anything but big.

vSOUTH AFRICAN golfer Jon Van Eyck had to run for his life when his ball hit a hippo and the five-ton beast charged him.

Gunther Eyck. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995.

The brothers van Eyck are reputed to have originated the modern process of oil painting.