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Ghent Altarpiece, a Rare card
The Ghent Altarpiece, also called the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, is a very large and complex 15th-century polyptych altarpiece in St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 99
- Power
- 181
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 220,000
Power 181 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It was begun around the mid-1420s and completed by 1432, and it is attributed to the Early Netherlandish painters and brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck.
- The altarpiece is a prominent example of the transition from Middle Age to Renaissance art and is considered a masterpiece of European art, identified by some as "the first major oil painting." The panels are organised in two vertical registers, each with double sets of foldable wings containing inner and outer panel paintings.
- The upper register of the inner panels represents the heavenly redemption, and includes the central classical Deësis arrangement of God, flanked by the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ghent Altarpiece article was read about 220,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 99: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ghent Altarpiece (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jan van Eyck / Presumably Hubert van Eyck, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.


