Ghent Is Challenging Antwerp as Belgium’s Capital of Cool

One of Ghent’s most emblematic landmarks, Gravensteen served as the residence of the Counts of Flanders until 1353. After ...
VRT

Ghent University rector Petra De Sutter uses fabricated quotes in speech, AI gets blame

At the start of the academic year, Rector Petra De Sutter gave a speech containing fabricated quotes from well-known thinkers ...
Artnet

A $2.4 Million Restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece Has Yielded Shocking Revelations—Like the Mystical Lamb’s Humanoid Face

In a discovery that may change art history books, a recent restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece completed by the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) in Belgium has uncovered original ...
Artnet

There Will Never Be Another Show of Northern Renaissance Master Jan van Eyck Like the One About to Open in Belgium

Around half of the known works by Flemish master Jan van Eyck will be exhibited in a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition in Belgium next week alongside the newly restored Ghent Altarpiece, one of the most ...
VRT

Ghent adds explanatory signs to statues and places that refer to Belgium’s colonial history

The fair city of Ghent is going to place special explanatory signs next to four statues, one building and two street names ...
CNN

Website lets world admire ‘Ghent Altarpiece’ in 100 billion pixels

With its remarkably realistic depictions and dramatic history, the Ghent Altarpiece (1432) is widely thought to be one of the most famous panel paintings in the world. Stolen several times (most ...