I stumbled across this street art mural in Ghent and realized it portrayed parts of panels from the famous van Eyck altar piece we’d seen a couple days ago. I mentioned in that post about the multi-paneled painting’s tumultuous history of being sold, looted, some panels stolen and restored (all except one panel which remains missing).
Curious, I asked Claude if it could give me more info about the street art mural. Here’s what Claude came up with:
“When the film The Monuments Men came out in 2014, graffiti artist Bart Smeets sprayed a gigantic mural of the Ghent Altarpiece on the side wall at the end of Van Stopenberghestraat. It was an advertising stunt by film producer 20th Century Fox to promote the film, which starred Matt Damon and George Clooney.”
It’s a movie promo!
