In Adoration of the Lamb (1432 - shown above) northern renaissance landscape painter, Van Eyck depicts an altarpiece in a grand landscape with many objects. “But most impressive is the central theme: the rich, the poor - people of all classes and backgrounds - coming to Christ. And who is this Christ? Van Eyck comprehended the Biblical understanding of Christ as the Lamb of God who died on the cross to take away the moral guilt of those who accept Him as Savior. But this Christ is not now dead. He stands upright and alive on the altar, symbolizing that He died as the substitute, sacrificed, but He now lives! As Van Eyck painted this, almost certainly he had Jesus’ own words in mind, as Christ speaks in the Apocalypse, the last book in the Bible: ‘I am the living one that became dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and I have the keys of death and Hades.” (How Should We Then Live?, Schaefer, Francis A., Revell, 1971) page 66).
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