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June 17June 17 is the 168th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (169th in leap years), with 197 days remaining.
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Bavon
lamb.html">Lamb," by Hubert and Jan van Eyck); the churches of St. Michel,
old houses on the Quai des Herbes; the splendidly soaring Belfry;
The cathedral has the usual solitary west tower, as at Ely, that
Belgian churches. The great Van Eyck is hung in a chapel on the
for its exhibition. The paintings on the shutters are merely
in Berlin. Their restoration to Ghent, one hopes, will form a
owes to Belgium. The four main panels, however, are genuine work
begun by Hubert, and finished by Jan van Eyck in 1432. The centre-
"Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches,
One may question, indeed, if figurative language of the kind in
this literal lamb, on its red-damasked table, in the midst of
Princes, can ever quite escape a hint of something ludicrous. One
spirit of devotion that inspired this marvellous picture and its
other go/good.html">good pictures in Ghent, including (not even to go outside
into which portraits of Philip II. of Spain, the Emperor Charles
the sixteenth-century history of the Netherlands--are.
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