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Lode Van Hecke. Saint Bavo's Cathedral, also known as Sint-Baafs Cathedral ( Dutch: Sint Baafskathedraal ), is a cathedral of the Catholic Church in Ghent, Belgium. The 89-meter-tall Gothic building is the seat of the Diocese of Ghent and is named for Saint Bavo of Ghent. It contains the well-known Ghent Altarpiece .
This open view measures 5.2 x 3.75 m. [1] Closed view, back panels. The Ghent Altarpiece, also called the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb ( Dutch: De aanbidding van het Lam Gods ), [A] is a very large and complex 15th-century polyptych altarpiece in St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium. It was begun around the mid-1420s and completed by 1432, and ...
Logo of Ghent. Ghent ( Dutch: Gent [ɣɛnt] ⓘ; French: Gand [ɡɑ̃] ⓘ; historically known as Gaunt in English) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, after Brussels and Antwerp. [2]
Petrus Christus ( Dutch: [ˈpeː.trʏs ˈkrɪs.tʏs, ˈxrɪs-]; c. 1410/1420 – 1475/1476) was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges from 1444, where, along with Hans Memling, he became the leading painter after the death of Jan van Eyck. He was influenced by van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden and is noted for his innovations with ...
The Arnolfini Portrait, oil on oak, 1434. National Gallery, London. Jan van Eyck (/ v æ n ˈ aɪ k / van EYEK, Dutch: [ˈjɑɱ vɑn ˈɛik]; c. before 1390 – 9 July 1441) was a Flemish painter active in Bruges who was one of the early innovators of what became known as Early Netherlandish painting, and one of the most significant representatives of Early Northern Renaissance art.
Lieven van Lathem died in Antwerp in 1493. Around the year 1515, an Italian banker in Bruges, Jerome Frescobaldi, loaned money to Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy, Governor of the Netherlands, on an inventory of some of her jewelled tableware. The pieces were weighed and valued by the goldsmith Lieven van Lathem, the son of the painter. [3]
Justus van Gent. Justus van Gent or Joos van Wassenhove [1] ( c. 1410 – c. 1480) was an Early Netherlandish painter, perhaps from Ghent, who after training and working in Flanders later moved to Italy where he worked for Federico da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino, and was known as Giusto da Guanto, or in modern Italian Giusto di Gand etc.
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam 71.5 cm x 90 cm Now usually attributed to Hubert van Eyck: The Fountain of Life: c. 1432 Museo del Prado, Madrid 181 cm c 119 cm Usually attributed to the workshop of Van Eyck Portrait of a Man with Carnation: c. 1436 Gemäldegalerie, Berlin 40 cm x 31 cm Attributed to Van Eyck or a member of his workshop