Art Of The Day Weekly
#362 - from 30 October 2014 to 5 November 2014
Memories of Van Eyck
BERLIN – It is the most famous work by the Van Eyck brothers, which is currently being restored at the museum of Ghent. The polyptych altarpiece of the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb is present here by proxy, recreated based on copies of the 16th and 17th centuries and on photographs. This is one way of reminding all that the work was once the property of the museum, and that it was only returned to Belgium in 1920, as part of an agreement of war reparations.
• The Ghent Altarpiece by the Van Eyck brothers at the Gemaldegälerie, from 4 September 2014 to 29 March 2015.