Talk:Hubert van Eyck

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It represents, on numerous panels, Christ on the judgment seat, with the Virgin and St John the Baptist at His sides ... and, beneath him, the Lamb shedding His blood in the presence of angels, apostles, prophets, martyrs, knights and hermits.

There seems to be an alternative interpretation: That the enthroned figure, with a papal tiara, represents God the Father. Indeed, it is difficult to find any of the traditional attributes of Christ in the figure.

On what grounds is the figure here identified as Christ?

Sebastjan

hmmm...

Strange, at Ghent Altarpiece the suggestion that the figure has attributes of God the father has recently attracted a cite tag (now rewritten & removed by me). I think most if not all art historians see him as Christ, partly "Christ as priest, crowning the symbol of his sacrifice on the altar below" (Lane, Barbara G,The Altar and the Altarpiece, Sacramental Themes in Early Netherlandish Painting, Harper & Row, 1984, ISBN 0064301338 - pp 109 ff). There are many similar Christ as priest figures in Early Netherlandish art.

This article really needs a massive updating. Johnbod 18:21, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

I'd also like to note that it makes more sense that the figure is Christ when one considers that he is surrounded by the Virgin and John the Baptist...the Virgin obviously as his mother, and the Baptist as the one who proclaimed "Behold the Lamb of God..." with the lamb beneath them. You could also interpret the scene as similar to a crucifixion arrangement, although it's John the Baptist, not John the Apostle, at Christ's side...--Rubinia 13:57, 24 October 2007 (UTC)