Adoration of the Mystic Lamb ☰ Van Eyck ☲ Canvas Size:20 x 12

Adoration of the Mystic Lamb ☰ Van Eyck ☲ Canvas Size:20 x 12The Ghent Altarpiece (1432, De aanbidding van het Lam Gods) by brothers Jan and Hubert van Eyck, also known as the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, is a large and complex polyptych altarpiece in St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium. The altarpiece is a prominent example of the transition from Middle Age to Renaissance art, described as "the first major oil painting." The central panel is titled Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, depicting a meadow with an

and the canvas came from the same bolt of material

Le Parlement

It depicts a female acrobat performing on a horse at the Circus Fernando

allowing the viewer to place themselves into the scene

with the church obscured on the left

Carnival Evening (1886) by Henri Rousseau depicts a couple dressed in carnival costumes

Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (c

John Ruskin

It depicts four people in a diner late at night

with three models in various states of undress

descending a steep slope

Vermeer's devotion to accuracy is demonstrated in the painting's details