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    The Ghent Altarpiece, also called the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (Dutch: De aanbidding van het Lam Gods), is a very large and complex 15th-century polyptych...
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    Ghent and is named for Saint Bavo of Ghent. It contains the well-known Ghent Altarpiece. The cathedral stands on the site of the former Chapel of St. John...
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    Trinity by Masaccio, c. 1427, in fresco Ghent Altarpiece (1432) by Hubert and Jan van Eyck (St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent) The Descent from the Cross, Rogier...
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  • also called The Righteous Judges, is the lower left panel of the Ghent Altarpiece, painted by Jan van Eyck or his brother Hubert Van Eyck between 1430...
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    Jan van Eyck (category Artists from Ghent)
    surviving paintings are confidently attributed to him, as well as the Ghent Altarpiece and the illuminated miniatures of the Turin-Milan Hours, all dated...
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    Cathedral with the Ghent Altarpiece, the belfry, the Gravensteen castle, and the splendid architecture along the old Graslei harbour. Ghent has established...
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    the abbey, now the cathedral, of St Bavo at Ghent, where his Ghent Altarpiece still remains, settling in Ghent by c. 1420. Around the time of his settlement...
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  • Campbell and Preston Savitz learn that Van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece was removed by the priests of Ghent Cathedral for safekeeping, but their truck was stopped...
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    Polyptych (category Altarpieces)
    Byzantine influences. The Stefaneschi Polyptych, c. 1320, by Giotto. The Ghent Altarpiece, completed in 1432 by Hubert van Eyck and Jan van Eyck. The Last Judgement...
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    story of how a famous fifteenth-century painting, a panel from the Ghent Altarpiece known as The Just Judges, came into his possession. One evening a regular...
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