Painting pearls

This has nothing to do with HH except that it's old ☺.  I follow a blog called The History Blog; it has to do with archaeology, art, coins found with metal detectors, old books, Roman statues....any news of a historical nature.  It's fascinating, every day.

One post lately featured an altar piece that's being restored in St. Bravo Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium.  If you click the link, you'll find the article there, describing the altarpiece, with a nice photo.  But man, if you want to REALLY see it close up, then definitely click "Closer to Van Eyck: Rediscovering the Ghent Altarpiece". The pictures are so huge you can view details from every panel with microscopic magnification".  We're talking magnificent, here. 

See the BVM's crown in the main triptych?  I've always wondered how an artist painted something like jewels, and now I know, and so do you ☺

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