• Jan van Eyck’s inclusion of an Annunciation in the Ghent Altarpiece is not a unique one.
  • This segment of the website presents a large number of paintings by Jan van Eyck and his workshop.
  • Jan van Eyck masterfully utilized space in the Ghent Altarpiece, for example, if we look at the closed view and the figure of Adam to the left, his right foot...
  • The altarpiece was donated to St Bavo’s cathedral by one of van Eyck’s clients, a merchant and the mayor of Ghent.
  • It was begun around the mid-1420s and completed by 1432, and it is attributed to the Early Netherlandish painters and brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck.
  • [4:04] We should say that the altarpiece is 11.5 feet high.
  • The Ghent Altarpiece is a painting by the brilliant Dutch painter Jan van Eyck, commissioned by the generous customer of fine art works, Jos Veidt.
  • Commissioned by the Mayor of Ghent and completed before 1432, this truly great work was started by Hubert van Eyck and completed by his (more famous)...
  • ...Allorlun Gent; Gentski oltar; Ghent Altarpiece; تقديس الحمل; Πολύπτυχο της Γάνδης; Gentaltaret; retablo de Jan van Eyck y Hubert van Eyck...
  • Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, detail, Jan van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece, completed 1432, oil on wood, 11 feet 5 inches x 15 feet 1 inch (open), Saint Bavo Cathedral...
  • (altar wings closed) 1432 (210 Kb); Oil on panel, Each panel 146.2 x 51.4 cm (57 1/2 x 20 1/4 in); Cathedral of St Bavo, Ghent.
  • In producing the Ghent Altarpiece, Hubert and Jan van Eyck would gift the world one of the finest artworks in European history.