Ghent Altarpiece
Adoration Lamb painting
The Ghent Altarpiece is a monumental 15th-century polyptych painting housed in St.
Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium.
Created by the brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck, it depicts religious scenes including the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb.
The work is considered a masterpiece of early Northern Renaissance art, renowned for its revolutionary oil painting technique and intricate detail.
It has been stolen, dismembered, and fought over more than any other artwork in history.
- lambJuvenile sheep
- polyptychMulti-panel hinged artwork
- oil paintingArt made with linseed-bound pigments
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- BelgiumWestern European constitutional monarchy
stolen · Christianity · Eve · Northern Renaissance · light · provenance · Adam · biblical scenes · fountain · Gothic architecture · patronage · artistic experimentation · salvation · Eucharist · Bruges · masterpiece · pigments · gilded
- Renaissance artMichelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Botticelli, Titian
- Belgian ArtMagritte, Rubens, Van Eyck, Bruegel, Tintin
- Belgian landmarksRoyal Palace, European Parliament
- FlandersFlanders, Antwerp, Bruges, Limburg, Brussels
- altarpiecestriptych, diptych, polyptych
- Ghent
Ghent AltarpieceFountain
Structure spouting water skyward
conceptual art · abstract expressionism · Kazimir Malevich · Jackson Pollock · minimalist art