Altered in style. A socio-cultural study of the 1550 repaint campaign of the Ghent Altarpiece Ghent University
The Ghent Altarpiece, a late-medieval painting by the Van Eyck brothers, was repainted in 1550. The current conservation treatment of the altarpiece indicates that extensive representational modifications were made, which literally changed the artwork’s original style. The aim of this project is to explain why these stylistic modifications took place in 1550 despite the religious artwork's cult status and the Van Eyck brothers' fame. This ...