The Nazis hid looted art in salt mines at Altaussee such as the Ghent Altarpiece.

Interesting highlights are the Saint Bavo Cathedral with the Ghent Altarpiece, the belfry, the Gravensteen castle, and the splendid architecture along the old Graslei harbour.

Jan van Eyck, " Knights of Christ " ( detail of the Ghent Altarpiece ).

One of Jan's most famous works, the Ghent Altarpiece, is believed to be a collaboration between the two, begun c. 1420 by Hubert and completed by Jan in 1432.

Foremost among these is the Ghent Altarpiece painted for Jodocus Vijdts and his wife Elisabeth Borluut.

* Closer to Van Eyck ( The Ghent Altarpiece in 100 billion pixels )

Shortly afterwards, he began his only surviving documented work, the Ghent Altarpiece in the Saint Bavo Cathedral.

Writing in 1933, art historian Bryson Burroughs, who at that time attributed to Hubert the Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych and whom he describes as " the fountainhead of northern painting ", suggests he did the underdrawing for the Ghent Altarpiece with Jan painting in after his brother's death.

Given the circumstances, the Ghent Altarpiece is a difficult work to use for comparison when assessing other attributions, especially as several other artists from the brothers ' workshops probably worked on it as well.

The division of surviving works between Hubert, early Jan van Eyck, and other painters has been the subject of great debate among art historians, involving the Ghent Altarpiece, the Turin-Milan Hours and other pieces.

The van Eycks ' Ghent Altarpiece, then as now famous as a supreme example of Early Netherlandish painting and already a major tourist attraction, just restored in 1550, was saved by dismantling it and hiding it in the cathedral tower.

The panel from the Ghent Altarpiece known as The Just Judges.

Clamence then relates the story of how a famous fifteenth-century painting, a panel from the Ghent Altarpiece known as The Just Judges, came into his possession.

The full story of the Ghent Altarpiece and the " Just Judges " panel, along with its role in Camus ' novel, is told in Noah Charney's 2010 book, Stealing the Mystic Lamb: the True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece.

Finally, Clamence employs the imagery of the Ghent Altarpiece and The Just Judges to explain his self-identification as a " judge-penitent ".

* the Ghent Altarpiece ( 1432 ) by Hubert and Jan van Eyck

Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, with gushing blood, detail of the Ghent Altarpiece by Jan Van Eyck.

" Christ King ", a detail from Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece ( 1432 )

* 1432 in art-Jan van Eyck completes Ghent Altarpiece

" The Ghent Altarpiece: The Adoration of the Lamb " ( interior view ) painted 1432 by Jan van Eyck.

* Ghent Altarpiece, by Hubert and Jan van Eyck

Opened view of the Ghent Altarpiece: Jan van Eyck ( 1432 ).

* The Ghent Altarpiece, completed in 1432 by Hubert van Eyck and Jan van Eyck

* Ghent Altarpiece, a very large and complex Early Netherlandish polyptych panel painting which is considered to be one of Belgium's masterpieces and one of the world's treasures

In the Ghent Altarpiece: The Adoration of the Lamb by Jan Van Eyck ( 1438 ), the Lamb of God stands upon an altar dressed as for the Mass of the Precious Blood, with a blood-red frontal: the Lamb's blood is caught in a chalice, and its Eucharistic intention is signaled by the dove of the Holy Spirit above.

Every year the ten-day-long " Ghent Festival " ( Gentse Feesten in Dutch ) is held.

Although native to Ghent, he punished the city after the 1539 Revolt of Ghent and obliged the city's nobles to walk in front of the emperor barefoot with a noose ( Dutch: strop ) around the neck ; since this incident, the people of Ghent have been called " Stroppendragers " ( noose bearers ).

After the religious revolts of 1566 in the Netherlands, Artois briefly entered the Dutch Revolt in 1576, participating in the Pacification of Ghent until it formed the Union of Atrecht in 1579.

In the Netherlands, David van der Leyen and Levina Ghyselins, described variously as Dutch Anabaptists or Mennonites, were executed by Catholic authorities in Ghent in 1554.

Major supply and ammunition depot magazines were set up for the British by General Ligonier at Ghent, Oudenarde and Tournai, while the Dutch General Vander – Duyn placed theirs at Mons, Charleroi and Tournai.

After Moltke's repulse at Melle, the capture of Ghent followed in mid-July with an immense amount of supplies and material along with its garrison consisting of 2, 200 Dutch troops ; and some 700 British troops.

The Ghent-Terneuzen Canal ( Dutch: Kanaal van Gent naar Terneuzen ), also known as the " Sea Canal " ( Zeekanaal ) is a canal linking Ghent in Belgium to the port of Terneuzen on the Westerschelde ( Scheldt ) estuary in the Netherlands, thereby providing the former with better access to the sea.

Ghent University ( Dutch: Universiteit Gent, abbreviated as UGent ) is a Dutch-speaking public university located in Ghent, Belgium.

In 1991, the university was granted major autonomy and changed its name from State University of Ghent ( Dutch: Rijksuniversiteit Gent, abbreviated as RUG ) to its current name.

This is explained by the fact that the historical Old and Middle Dutch language area largely corresponded to the portion of Northwestern Europe that was economically focused on the Dutch-speaking cities of Bruges and Ghent ( later followed by Antwerp and Amsterdam ) resulting in a mental socio-economical border greatly limiting interaction.

In spite of the Joyous Entries he was accorded in Bruges and Ghent and his ceremonious installation as Duke of Brabant and Count of Flanders, Anjou was not popular with the Dutch and Flemish, who continued to see the Catholic French as enemies ; the provinces of Zeeland and Holland refused to recognise him as their sovereign, and William, the central figure of the " Politiques " who worked to defuse religious hostilities, was widely criticized for his " French politics ".

A passage in Guicciardini fired his fancy, and straightaway he wrote a series of vignettes set during the Dutch Revolt, with the title In't Wonderjaar 1566 ( published Ghent, 1837 ).

The Vooruit was founded in Ghent by Edward Anseele and appeared the first time on 31 August 1884, just before the foundation of the Belgian Labour Party ( Dutch: Belgische Werklieden Partij ) in 1885.

The liberal politician Louis Franck, the Roman Catholic Frans Van Cauwelaert and the socialist Camille Huysmans ( together they were called the three crowing cocks ) worked together for the introduction of Dutch at Ghent University.

The Germans did indeed help out their " Germanic brothers " by setting Dutch as the sole administrative language and by converting Ghent University to the Dutch language.

Locations included the medieval castle of De Doornenburgh, close to Doornenburg in the Dutch province Gelderland ( part of the historical Guelders ), and the Belgian cities of Bruges and Ghent.

It is sometimes called Gentse Waterzooi ( in Dutch ) which refers to Ghent, a city in Belgium.

Baron Van Ghent was in fact the real commander of the expedition and had done all the operational planning, as he had been the former commander of the Dutch Marine Corps, the first in history to be specialised in amphibious operations, that now was headed by the Englishman Colonel Thomas Dolman.

The Dutch word " steen " means " stone ", and is used for " fortress " or " palace ", as in the " Gravensteen " in Ghent, Belgium.

The Dutch had hoped to repeat the success of the Raid on the Medway and a frigate squadron under Van Ghent sailed up the Thames in May but discovered that Sheerness Fort was now too well prepared to pass.