Ghent Altarpiece
A manifesto of oil painting: 24 panels of unheard-of detail; the most stolen artwork ever
- Author
- Hubert and Jan van Eyck
- Style
- Northern Renaissance — Oil paint and a magnifying eye: the world as an endless sum of exact, symbol-laden things
- Century
- 15th century
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