The answer is Spiritual. Jan van Eyck was critical toward the northern Renaissance as well as to the whole Renaissance. He is credited with the creation of the oil-coating system, which supplanted the prior egg-gum based paint strategy. The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini, normally called the Arnolfini Wedding, is van Eyck's most celebrated work.
<span>The city of Pompeii is important because of the way
Vesuvius both destroyed and preserved it, but in the 1st Century AD it
had little special significance.</span>
