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FILTER RESULTS ►Art's perfect theft: the 'Ghent Altarpiece'
GHENT (AP).- 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 to one of Western art's defining works, the "Adoration of the Mystic Lamb," also known as the "Ghent Altarpiece," remains a mystery. Show More Summary
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The oft-stolen Ghent altarpiece is being restored at a cost of $1.3 million, only a piece or two will be removed from display at a time. But if you can't make it to Ghent you can view the whole altarpiece in 100 billion pixels here.
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more van eyck than you can handle
There is a completely awesome website called “Closer to Van Eyck: Rediscovering the Ghent Altarpiece.” The ides is simple: make the famous work accessible in insane detail to anyone in the world. Sponsored by the Getty Foundation and the Flemish and East Flanders governments, and carried out by a team of European conservators, the web [...]
The magic JPEGs of the Ghent Altarpiece
If you’ve listened to this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast, you heard technical examination specialist Ron Spronk talk about the amazing new “Closer to van Eyck” website. Spronk is something of a rock star among technical art historians: He worked on the remarkable “Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings” exhibition at Harvard and on a major show [...]
Closer to Van Eyck
Closer to Van Eyck: Rediscovering the Ghent Altarpiece is an online presentation of the results of a research project that examined the artist’s extraordinary masterwork in extreme detail, both to assess and record its condition for conservation. The site opens up with a full image of the panels of the altarpiece; from there you can [...]
The Ghent Altarpiece online in extreme detail
The Ghent Altarpiece, a dramatic and complex painting on multiple hinged oak panels started by Hubert van Eyck and completed by his brother Jan in 1432, is displayed within a bulletproof glass enclosure in Saint Bravo Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium. Painted in the Ars Nova style that rejected the allegorical and idealized forms of the [...]
Ghent Altarpiece Examined
If you can't visit the Ghent Altarpiece, the van Eyck masterpiece of Renaissance art, this is next best: new high resolution imagery that allows viewers to zoom into individual panels microscopically, both in Ghent Altarpiece's closed and open position. Show More Summary
Unprecedented imaging project supported by the Getty reveals master work in minute detail-online
LOS ANGELES, CA.- It is now possible to zoom into the intricate, breathtaking details of one of the most important works of art in the world, thanks to a newly completed website focused on the Ghent Altarpiece. A stunning and highlyShow More Summary
Restored Ghent Altarpiece Gets Own Interactive Web Site
One of the most revered pictures in Western art history, Hubert and Jan van Eyck's "The Mystic Lamb," has been photographed centimeter by centimeter at extremely high resolution for the first time.
Conserving a masterpiece -- the Ghent Altarpiece
When Anne van Grevenstein-Kruse was a child, her family made a pilgrimage from Antwerp to Ghent to see “The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb,” the celebrated 15th-century altarpiece by Hubert and Jan van Eyck. “It was still in its original...
Getty Awards $630,000 for Concervation of Ghent Altarpiece and Vasari's Last Supper
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Foundation has awarded $630,000 for the preservation of two major works of art: The Mystic Lamb by Hubert and Jan van Eyck (the Ghent Altarpiece) of 1432 and The Last Supper by Giorgio Vasari of 1546. These...Show More Summary
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