Recovered Izaak van den Blocke altarpiece painting handed to Gdańsk museum
Poland’s Ministry of Culture handed Izaak van den Blocke’s Descent of the Holy Spirit to the National Museum in Gdańsk. The painting, made around 1610 for the high altar of St Bridget’s Church, disappeared after 1945 and surfaced in 2007. The photograph shows the work at the museum.
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