Artnet

A $2.4 Million Restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece Has Yielded Shocking Revelations—Like the Mystical Lamb’s Humanoid Face

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 ...
The Art Newspaper

Ghent Altarpiece: latest phase of restoration unmasks the humanised face of the Lamb of God

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 Australian

Ghent Altarpiece by van Eyck returns to Ghent after restoration

The 12-panel polyptych, painted in the 1420s by brothers Jan and Hubert van Eyck for Ghent mayor Jodocus Vijd, has been ­undergoing restoration since 2012 (due to be completed in 2024) and the cleaned ...
Hyperallergic

A Nightmarish Restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece Wool Go Down in Meme History

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, ...
Artnet

There Will Never Be Another Show of Northern Renaissance Master Jan van Eyck Like the One About to Open in Belgium

Around half of the known works by Flemish master Jan van Eyck will be exhibited in a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition in Belgium next week alongside the newly restored Ghent Altarpiece, one of the most ...