THE MOST STOLEN ARTWORK IN HISTORY
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
