Agnus Dei: 7 Famous Lamb of God Paintings, From Van Eyck to Zurbaran
The Lamb of God, in Latin the Agnus Dei, is one of the oldest and richest images in Christian art….
The Ghent Altarpiece: Art’s Most Stolen Masterpiece
The Ghent Altarpiece, also called the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, is one of the founding works of European painting,…
Van Eyck’s Madonna of Chancellor Rolin and Its Secret Landscape
The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin is one of the most refined small paintings of the Northern Renaissance, made by Jan…
The Sacred Paintings of Jan van Eyck and the Birth of Oil
Jan van Eyck paintings invented the entire Western language of oil painting. Step into the Madonnas, Crucifixions, and the Ghent Altarpiece of the founding Flemish master.