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The audacious theft of the Ghent Altarpiece - and other staggering art heists
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telegraph.co.ukAs Jan van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece is restored after a piece was stolen 86 year ago, Mick Brown explores the most famous art heists If a work of art can be said to have a life, which it surely does, then few can have had a life as eventful as the Ghent Altarpiece.
A monumental work of religious devotion, painted by the brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck, and completed in 1432, the altarpiece – more properly known as The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb – is one of the world’s greatest art treasures.
In its almost 600-year history, it has been stolen several times; passed through the hands of a king, an emperor and Adolf Hitler; parts of it have been sawed in half; it has survived a fire; been carted halfway across Europe and back; and been
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