- Discover the secrets of Jan van Eyck’s greatest masterpiece, the Ghent Altarpiece: a sublime example of Northern Renaissance art and the most stolen...
- Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife Giovanna Cenami (The Arnolfini Marriage) - Jan van Eyck.
- The Ghent Altarpiece The Ghent Altarpiece (also called the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb) (the mid-1420s – 1432) by Hubert and Jan van Eyck, located in...
- St Bavo’s cathedral in Ghent still holds the painting, a great altarpiece that started that revolution- “ THE GHENT ALTARPIECE “.
- Coveted, stolen, buried, and now restored, this exceptional altarpiece has a history as colorful as its palette.
- The first painter to translate Flemish illumination onto a grand scale was Jan Van Eyck. His masterpiece – a radiant triptych known as the Ghent altarpiece...
- 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.
- Jan van Eyck, Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban (Self-Portrait?), 1433.
- 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.
- (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.
- Looted, burned and hidden: Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece had an eventful history over the centuries.
- This segment of the website presents a large number of paintings by Jan van Eyck and his workshop.
- In producing the Ghent Altarpiece, Hubert and Jan van Eyck would gift the world one of the finest artworks in European history.
- Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris.
