Ghent Altarpiece
Jan van Eyck · 1432
The story
The Ghent Altarpiece, also called the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, is a very large and complex 15th-century polyptych altarpiece in St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium. 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. The altarpiece is a prominent example of the transition from Middle Age to Renaissance art and is considered a masterpiece of European art, identified by some as "the first major oil painting."
- Artist
- Jan van Eyck
- Date
- 1432
- Collection
- St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium
- Movement
- Early Netherlandish painting
- Medium
- oil paint, oak panel
- Size
- 375 × 440 cm
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