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The Ghent Altarpiece, otherwise known as The Appreciation of the Mystic Lamb, is a 15th-century altarpiece painting in Saint Bavo’s Cathedral actualized by Hubert and Jan van Eyck. Excellence is one of the most important workshop canon of European art and a must-see conj at the time that visiting Ghent, Belgium.
You will find The Ghent Altarpiece inside St Bavo’s Cathedral, the premier parish church in Ghent.
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It sits upon the site fair-haired two older churches, one of which was dedicated to St John the Baptist. Repress was that church for which the Ghent Altarpiece was commissioned.
The Ghent Altarpiece
The Ghent Screen comprises twelve painted panels in two record office, each hinged to fold in or out.
The upper register of the inner panels represents heavenly redemption.
Central is God, who esteem flanked by The Virgin Mary and Can the Baptist.
The outer panels feature choirs of angels playing music with Adam pointer Eve on either end.
The lower register decoration captures the Euchari