Ghent altarpiece

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God, the Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist, from the Ghent Altarpiece by Hubert and Jan van Eyck, 1432 Ghent Altarpiece, Rome Vatican, Art Periods, Jan Van Eyck, In Bruges, Van Eyck, Hieronymus Bosch, William Turner, Joan Miro

From the Altarpiece, aka, (Adoration of the Mystic Lamb) at Ghent (1432) by Jan van Eyck (1390-1441) Hegel took the central of these three figures, seated between Mary and John the Baptist, to be a representation of God the Father in the form of Jesus the Son. In his Aesthetics III. 1.2.(α)(αa), T. M. Knox translation (1975), he wrote: The first topic is the object of love itself in its simple universality and undisturbed unity with itself—i.e. God in his essence, devoid of any appearance…

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