The Annunciation is a key event in the Christian biblical story. The conservation-restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece (1432), the world-famous masterpiece by brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck, began in ...

One of Ghent's richest citizens commissioned two luminaries of the Northern Renaissance, Jan and Hubert Van Eyck to paint "Adoration of the Mystic Lamb." The painting took over six years to ...