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For nearly 600 years, millions of people looked at Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece without ever seeing what the artist actually painted. Centuries of dirt, misguided restorations, and overpainting had hidden the true masterpiece beneath. Then in 2012, conservators began the most ambitious art restoration in history, and what they discovered shocked the world.

The famous Lamb of God—which had appeared as an oddly elongated creature for 400 years—was revealed to have a completely different face underneath. The restored lamb stares directly at viewers with intensely human eyes, creating an unsettling spiritual encounter that medieval worshippers would have understood but had been lost to modern audiences.

Every cleaned panel revealed new layers of meaning—hidden inscriptions, political commentary, and spiritual symbolism that demonstrate Van Eyck's genius extended far beyond technical skill. This restoration didn't just clean a painting; it recovered lost medieval ways of seeing the divine.

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:52 - How the most ambitious art restoration in history began
01:40 - Van Eyck's original masterpiece hidden beneath centuries of mistakes
02:30 - The shocking discoveries that changed everything we knew
04:30 - Beyond the famous lamb eyes: hidden secrets throughout the altarpiece
07:02 - Landscape revelations that rewrote medieval art history
08:30 - Scientific detective work that uncovered Van Eyck's genius

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