Conservators working on the five lower central panels discovered that the Van Eyck brothers' original work had been painted over as early as the mid-16th century; removal of those additions (as well as the centuries' accumulated grime) uncovered an unsuspected level of naturalism. Says the project's head, "Botanists can actually identify every plant in there. […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM on December 19, 2019