Podcast #1: The Self-Isolation Series 2020

Covid-19 is giving us time to reflect and learn, so every week a member of the Beaumont Nathan team will be creating their own podcast on different art-related topics and subjects that interest them. To kick-off the series, Martha Craig, BN’s head of research, has chosen to discuss Jan van Eyck’s greatest work – The Ghent Altarpiece – the most stolen artwork in history! Enjoy…

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Portrait of a Man, 1433 (National Gallery, London) (Image © Copyright The National Gallery, London 2020)

Jan van Eyck, Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (National Gallery, London) (Image © Copyright The National Gallery, London 2020)

Jan van Eyck, Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (Sabauda Gallery, Turin, Italy) (image:http://closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/)

Jan van Eyck, Madonna of Chancellor Rolin (Louvre Museum, Paris) (image: http://closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/)

Jan van Eyck, Madonna in the Church (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin) (image: http://closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/)

Hubert and Jan van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece, completed 1432. Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent (photo: Web Gallery of Art)

Goering admires a present given to him by Hitler (image: HULTON/GETTY)

Photo of the Monuments men moving the central panel of the Ghent Altarpiece in Altaussee, Austria in July of 1945. (photo: AP Photo/National Archives and Records Administration)