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An altarpiece is a painting or sculpture, including relief, of religious subject matter made for placing at the back of or behind the altar of a Christian church. Though most commonly used for a singl
The Ghent Altarpiece (1432) by Hubert and Jan van Eyck, with its wings open. Considered one of the masterpieces of Early Netherlandish painting, a complex polyptych panel winged altarpiece, which lost its elaborate framework in the Reformation.
Vigoroso da Siena's altarpiece from 1291, an example of an early painted panel altarpiece, with the individual parts framed by gables and sculptured elements
Rothenburg: The Altarpiece of the Holy Blood, by Tilman Riemenschneider (1501–1505). An example of an altarpiece with a central, sculpted section and relief wings.
Sacra conversazione with a landscape setting and donor portrait, Palma Vecchio, c. 1519
Ghent Altarpiece
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The Ghent Altarpiece, also called the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, is a very large and complex 15th-century polyptych altarpiece in St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium. It was begun around the mid-14
Altarpiece
…Holy Trinity by Masaccio, c. 1427, in fresco Ghent Altarpiece (1432) by Hubert and Jan van Eyck (St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent) The Descent from the Cross, Rogier van der Weyden, c. 1435, Prado…
Ghent Altarpiece
Woodcut portrait of Hubert van Eyck, Edme de Boulonois, mid-16th century
Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?), 1433. Jan van Eyck, National Gallery, London