completed c. 1432, 135*235cm
Like the 17th-century Dutch painter Vermeer, van Eyck
takes us into the light, and makes us feel that we, too, belong
there. Van Eyck's meticulously detailed Adoration of
the Lamb is part of a huge altarpiece; painted on both sides,
it is the largest and most complex altarpiece produced
in the Netherlands in the 15th century. This monumental
work still hangs in its original setting, the Cathedral of
St Bavo in Ghent, drawing the worshipper deeper and deeper
into the sacred world it makes visible.
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