FILE: 06_Ghent Altarpiece.jpg

TITLE: Ghent Altarpiece by Hubert & Jan Van Eyck, Belgium - N. RENAISSANCE

DESCRIPTION: Center Panel of Community of Saints. Center: Lamb squirting blood into chalice. On Right: 12 apostles & martyrs in red robes. On Left: 4 evangelists carrying gospels. Right back: holy virgins. Left back+ holy confessors. Everyone in the world has converged. Miniaturist tradition of N. Europeans. PRECISION RENDERING saturated w/ symbolism (iconography).