htly earlier time, to Giotto and Uccello, but their work is just a bit to early for discussion with van Eyck.) Marcia Hall goes on in her appraisal about the way in which van Eyck applied his color (???binding his pigments in a drying oil???) to give his subjects their incredible color depth, and this of course is a major element in understanding the picture (coming as it does from a stone-cold ex