Collections
Paintings and objects, and where they are held.
4 entries in this section.
Every entry names a thing and the place that holds it. Where the record is thin or contested, the entry says so.
All of Collections
The Mystic LambThe Mystic Lamb: a polyptych in Ghent that has been stolen, split, hidden, faked and restored — and is still missing one panel.Read
Panel and canvasTwo surfaces, two fatesRead
The treasuryChurch silver, reliquary caskets and enamel work grouped by material as much as meaning — and what that says about how collections formed.Read
What a collection is missingThe shape of the gapsRead
Most of a collection lives on racking like this. The room is designed around retrieval, not display.
Photo: Picture storage racks at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Wellcome M0015437 · Wikimedia Commons