Word: polyptich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woke to find a panel of one of the world's most famed religious paintings wrenched away-the most sensational art robbery since the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. Nobody today remembers Jodocus Vijdts, Lord of Pamele, but every art connoisseur knows the polyptich which it is said Hubert van Eyck painted for him in the 15th Century and Jan van Eyck, the painter's brother, finished. The brilliant, realistic twelve-paneled Adoration of the Lamb remained Ghent's and Belgium's pride, lost only partial glory in 1816 when...
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