In the Belgian city of Ghent to see the amazing restoration work on the Ghent altarpiece, van Eyck’s ‘Adoration of the Mystic Lamb’. The restoration has removed all the sixteenth-century over-painting revealing van Eyck’s original colours.
Van Eyck ‘Adoration of the Mystic Lamb’ (completed 1432)
Restoration work being carried out on the main panel
Before and after restoration