Ghent Altarpiece
From The Guardian:
"Just about everything bad that could happen to a painting has happened to Hubert and Jan van Eyck's Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (also known as the Ghent Altarpiece).
It's almost been destroyed in a fire, was nearly burned by rioting
Calvinists, it's been forged, pillaged, dismembered, censored, stolen by
Napoleon, hunted in the first world war, sold by a renegade cleric,
then stolen repeatedly during the second world war, before being rescued
by The Monuments Men,
miners and a team of commando double-agents. The fact that it was the
artwork the Nazis were most desperate to steal – Göring wanted it for
his private collection, Hitler as the centrepiece of his citywide super-museum – has only increased its renown."
And now, thanks to the Getty Foundation, you can see it up close and in INCREDIBLE detail. ONE HUNDRED BILLION PIXELS WORTH! Go HERE.
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