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    • About
    • Poetry
      • Birdsongs
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      • Landscape and Language
      • At First, At Last
      • The Ones Who Got Away
      • Occasional Verse
      • Other Published Poems 1
      • Other Published Poems 2
    • Selected Articles
      • About
      • The 400-Year Old Commune
      • The Ghent Altarpiece
      • Elizabeth Freeman
      • The Final Solution
      • Our Bones Shall +
      • Never Before a Case Like
      • Forgotten Patriots
      • Fire and Ice G P O
      • Iceland Be Dammed
    • Varia
      • The Invisible Nation
      • Libretti | with W. Russo
      • Radio Plays
      • Opinions
      • Freydis Erik's-daughter
      • Notes on Switzerland
    • Photos
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  • Home
  • About
  • Poetry
    • Birdsongs
    • Flight from Manhattan
    • Landscape and Language
    • At First, At Last
    • The Ones Who Got Away
    • Occasional Verse
    • Other Published Poems 1
    • Other Published Poems 2
  • Selected Articles
    • About
    • The 400-Year Old Commune
    • The Ghent Altarpiece
    • Elizabeth Freeman
    • The Final Solution
    • Our Bones Shall +
    • Never Before a Case Like
    • Forgotten Patriots
    • Fire and Ice G P O
    • Iceland Be Dammed
  • Varia
    • The Invisible Nation
    • Libretti | with W. Russo
    • Radio Plays
    • Opinions
    • Freydis Erik's-daughter
    • Notes on Switzerland
  • Photos
  • Contact Us

"The Mystery of the Ghent Altarpiece"

Saturday Review (1978)

An analysis of the "mystery" of the Ghent Altarpiece. Traces interpretations of this canonical work by Jan van Eyck and his brother through the work of Erwin Panofsky and art historian Lotte Brand Philip's views on a missing sculpted framework. 

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