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EYCK, Jan van: The Ghent Altarpiece (wings open)

🖼 The Ghent Altarpiece (wings open), 1432
Oil on wood
350 × 461 cm
Gent, Belgium

Radiant glazes and jewel-like colors render a monumental, multi-paneled vision of paradise and devotion. Van Eyck's revolutionary oil technique and obsessive detail established Northern Renaissance painting, influencing European art for centuries.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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