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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
When a priceless altarpiece was stolen from a Belgian cathedral it sparked a 90-year hunt. The crime remains unsolved.
The Ghent Altarpiece – a vast polyptych, painted by Hubert and Jan van Eyck – was in its usual place in the Vijd chapel; but where one of the panels depicting the Just Judges had been, there was now a gaping hole. Two months earlier King Albert I had died in a mysterious accident; and just weeks later two of the country’s leading banks had unexpectedly collapsed, ruining businesses and wiping out savings. He also discovered the receipt for the left luggage office at Ghent station, where the typewriter used to produce the letters was later found, and a set of keys, including one which was identified as belonging to the rood loft in the cathedral.
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