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 ...

Restoring the Ghent Altarpiece may well exceed the years it took for Flemish brothers Jan and Hubert Van Eyck to create their wondrously detailed 12-panel masterpiece, from the mid-1420s to 1432.

The museum of fine art, Ghent has announced that the first phase of restoration of The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, better known as the Ghent Altarpiece, has been completed, revealing an unexpected ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Why did Hitler crave the missing panel in the famous Ghent Altarpiece? Maybe because the Nazi’s paranormal research group thought the masterpiece contained a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: frajds/Twitter The magic of looking at a centuries-old painting can feel like time-traveling. It's a moment frozen in time ...

One of the masterpieces of European Medieval art, the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb altarpiece by the brothers Jan and Hubert Van Eyck, is being unveiled today in its new home in the Cathedral of Saint ...

The restoration of a prized 15th-century painting has revealed the human-like face of a lamb, surprising art critics and prompting a debate online. The Ghent Altarpiece, which was completed in 1432 ...

Within the lexicon of Christian symbology, the lamb represents both the suffering and the triumph of Christ — though a sacrificial animal, it also embodies characteristics of gentleness, innocence, ...

The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, 1432, by Jan van Eyck (1390-1441), oil on panel. DeAgostini/Getty Images ...