The museum of fine art, Ghent has announced that the first phase of restoration of The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, better known as the Ghent Altarpiece, has been completed, revealing an unexpected ...

In a discovery that may change art history books, a recent restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece completed by the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) in Belgium has uncovered original ...

Restoring the Ghent Altarpiece may well exceed the years it took for Flemish brothers Jan and Hubert Van Eyck to create their wondrously detailed 12-panel masterpiece, from the mid-1420s to 1432.

Steve Berry hadn’t planned to write “The Omega Factor” or to create the character of Nick Lee, an investigator for the United Nations office that protects the world’s cultural artifacts. But when he ...

Superlatives follow The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb everywhere it goes. “World’s most coveted masterpiece.” “Most influential painting in history.” “First great painting of the Renaissance.” The ...

Within the lexicon of Christian symbology, the lamb represents both the suffering and the triumph of Christ — though a sacrificial animal, it also embodies characteristics of gentleness, innocence, ...

It’s none too easy to get a close-up view of one of history’s greatest paintings. The Ghent Altarpiece, painted in the 15th century by Jan Van Eyck and his brother Hubert, is usually encased in a ...

The main suspect in the legendary art heist is said to have whispered with his dying breath: “Only I know where the `Adoration’ is…” More than seven decades later, the whereabouts of a panel belonging ...