Ghent Altarpiece by Hubert and Jan van Eyck
- Who Piece was Created: Hubert and Jan van Eyck in 1432
- Size: 14.5 by 11.5 feet (4.4 by 3.5 meters) It was the first realist-style painting and the first great oil painting
-It’s almost been destroyed in a fire by rioting Calvinists
-it’s been forged
-pillaged
-dismembered
-censored
-stolen by Napoleon
-hunted in the first world war
-sold by a renegade cleric
-stolen repeatedly during the second world war(Both Hitler and Göring desperately wanted tHIS artwork)
*today you can find the Ghent Altarpiece in St.Bavo’s Cathedral Gent,Belgium
