The central tableau of ‘The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb’ (1432). DIRK WAEM/Belga/AFP via Getty Images A chart showing how the Lamb of God’s face had been altered. Courtesy of Science Advances With ...
The grass is greener, the sky is cleaner and dozens of tiny details have been exposed to delight art historians and inspire the devotion of the faithful. The central tableau of the 15th century Ghent ...
One of the world’s most famous paintings has been restored to its original state—and it’s freaking everyone out. Thought to be one of the first works of art made with oil paint, the Flemish brothers ...
The grass is greener, the sky is cleaner and dozens of tiny details have been exposed to delight art historians and inspire the devotion of the faithful. The central tableau of the 15th century Ghent ...
If we were to go to Belgium, to the Cathedral of Saint Bavo, to the Vijd Chapel, we would be overwhelmed. The Ghent altarpiece, also referred to as "The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb," is massive, ...
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 ...
The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, 1432, by Jan van Eyck (1390-1441), oil on panel. DeAgostini/Getty Images This couldn’t be further from the truth. In reality, workers on the painting’s restoration ...
We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World’s Most Coveted Masterpiece, by Noah Charney, ...
A celebrated medieval masterpiece is reopening to the public after a multi-million dollar upgrade. The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb — the beloved 12-paneled polyptych known as the Ghent Altarpiece — ...
A painstaking restoration of a 15th-century Flemish masterpiece is revealing the long-lost detail and splendour that helped make the altarpiece one of the world's most stolen artworks. "The Adoration ...
A few weeks ago, during the Friday Noon Mass at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, I was concerned for the lady in the pew in front of me. The Mass was in the Extraordinary Form of the Latin Rite ...
Great systematizers, in literature, art, and theology, can be so marvellously seductive. We never cease to marvel and to wonder at the hubristic achievements of, say, St Thomas Aquinas or Dante ...
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