More than seven decades later, the whereabouts of a panel belonging to one of Western art's defining works, the "Adoration of the Mystic Lamb," also known as the "Ghent Altarpiece," remains a mystery.

The Ghent Altarpiece is a complex work presenting the story of the Christian faith, especially that of redemption, told both on the interior with its two tiers (or in art parlance, registers) of ...

Secrets of the Ghent Altarpiece: Everything you thought you knew about this work of art might be wrong One of the most famous — and most frequently stolen — works of Western art reveals new ...

The Ghent Altarpiece, painted in the 15th century by Jan Van Eyck and his brother Hubert, is usually encased in a glass-and-steel, humidity-controlled box in a chapel at St. Bavo’s Cathedral in ...

The Ghent Altarpiece, which was completed in 1432 and is housed at St. Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium, is a large and complex painting that has captured the imagination of the art world for ...

News World News Ghent Altarpiece, world’s ‘most stolen work of art,’ reopens to public in $35 million bullet-proof display case DIRK WAEM/Belga/AFP via Getty Images ...

Arguably the most important painting in the history of art, the Ghent Altarpiece is certainly the most frequently stolen. An enormous polyptych the size of a barn wall (14.5 by 11.5 feet), and ...

Perhaps closest to the mystery these days is art restorer Bart Devolder, at Ghent’s Museum of Fine Arts. He is working on the most ambitious restoration yet of the 15th-century painting.

Art lovers will have even better access to the famous Ghent Altarpiece thanks to a 30m euro (£26m) upgrade to the Belgian cathedral where it is housed. The painting has been moved to a new area ...

Art lovers will have even better access to the famous Ghent Altarpiece thanks to a 30m euro (£26m) upgrade to the Belgian cathedral where it is housed.