Jan van Eyck - The Prophet Zacharias and the Angel Gabriel 1432

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Jan van Eyck - The Prophet Zacharias and the Angel Gabriel 1432

The Prophet Zacharias and the Angel Gabriel 1432
oil on wood
St. Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium

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The Ghent Altarpiece (or the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, Dutch: Het Lam Gods) is a very large and complex 15th-century polyptych altarpiece in St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium. It was begun c. the mid-1420s and completed before 1432, and is attributed to the Early Netherlandish painters and brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck. The altarpiece is considered a masterpiece of European art and one of the world's treasures.
The figures in the lunettes refer to prophecies of the coming of Christ. The far left lunette shows the prophet Zechariah and the far right one shows Micah.