Ghent altarpiece

Discover key locations in the history of the Ghent Altarpiece, one of the world's most important artworks and the most frequently stolen in history.

A modest, young Madonna the Mother of God sits at the right hand of the mysterious figure in the centre (the viewers left). Her serene face looks out from ...

The animal's soul-penetrating gaze was painted over by a second set of artists in 1550 and spent the next five centuries under wraps

Jan van Eyck was a Flemish painter active in Bruges. He is one of the early innovators of what became known as Early Netherlandish painting, and one of the most significant representatives of Early Northern Renaissance art.

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Jan Van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece (detail, left), early 15th century.

Masterpiece painted in 1432 in St Bavo’s Cathedral in Ghent reopens with display case described as ‘perfect’

Hail happy land! hail happy state! Whose freeborn sons in safety meet… Come let us kneel before his face Devoutly supplicate his grace. I have sought to

Restoration of Ghent Altarpiece.

Jan van Eyck--the Singing Angels from the Ghent Altarpiece