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The most stolen artwork of all time is the famous and astonishing Ghent Altarpiece...

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You might not have heard of the “Ghent Altarpiece,” also known as the “Adoration of the Mystic Lamb,” but thieves certainly have. Since its completion in 1432, the 12-panel oil painting by Flemish brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck has become the most stolen artwork of all time. It’s been taken at least seven times, including by none other than Napoleon Bonaparte. His army helped itself to four panels in 1794, displaying them in the Louvre until his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815; France’s Louis XVIII returned the panels after he retook the throne. The painting has also been burned and nearly blown up on several occasions, most recently during World War II.

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You might not have heard of the “Ghent Altarpiece,” also known as the “Adoration of the Mystic Lamb,” but thieves certainly have. Since its completion in 1432, the 12-panel oil painting by Flemish brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck has become the most stolen artwork of all time. It’s been taken at...
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Michie said:
You might not have heard of the “Ghent Altarpiece,” also known as the “Adoration of the Mystic Lamb,” but thieves certainly have. Since its completion in 1432, the 12-panel oil painting by Flemish brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck has become the most stolen artwork of all time. It’s been taken at least seven times, including by none other than Napoleon Bonaparte. His army helped itself to four panels in 1794, displaying them in the Louvre until his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815; France’s Louis XVIII returned the panels after he retook the throne. The painting has also been burned and nearly blown up on several occasions, most recently during World War II.

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The most stolen artwork of all time is a painting of a lamb.

You might not have heard of the “Ghent Altarpiece,” also known as the “Adoration of the Mystic Lamb,” but thieves certainly have. Since its completion in 1432, the 12-panel oil painting by Flemish brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck has become the most stolen artwork of all time. It’s been taken at...
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The Ghent Altarpiece is up there in my top five all time favorite pieces of artwork, along with Caravaggio's Calling of Saint Matthew and The Conversion of Saint Paul. I had no idea it had ever been stolen though, let alone as many times as that. Pretty staggering, I imagine in 2024 it's probably (hopefully) protected like the Mona Lisa, even though it's technically still in use on the altar at St. Bavo's.
 
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Michie said:
You might not have heard of the “Ghent Altarpiece,” also known as the “Adoration of the Mystic Lamb,” but thieves certainly have. Since its completion in 1432, the 12-panel oil painting by Flemish brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck has become the most stolen artwork of all time. It’s been taken at least seven times, including by none other than Napoleon Bonaparte. His army helped itself to four panels in 1794, displaying them in the Louvre until his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815; France’s Louis XVIII returned the panels after he retook the throne. The painting has also been burned and nearly blown up on several occasions, most recently during World War II.

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The most stolen artwork of all time is a painting of a lamb.

You might not have heard of the “Ghent Altarpiece,” also known as the “Adoration of the Mystic Lamb,” but thieves certainly have. Since its completion in 1432, the 12-panel oil painting by Flemish brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck has become the most stolen artwork of all time. It’s been taken at...
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I went to see it, or at least the copies of pieces that stand in for the real thing, in 1977. I knew about it from Albert Camus' book 'The Fall', which spoke of the panel called 'The Just Judges' having been stolen and replaced with a fake. I was into Existentialism at the time, not quite as a devote though. I was also discovering Thomism, and that stuck.
 
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