Today being the Feast of All Saints led me to think of images depicting the Company of Heaven and the one that immediately sprang to mind was the van Eyck's Ghent altarpiece The Adoration of the Lamb. Due to its scale it does not reproduce well on a blog, but it is familiar enough, and here is the lower central panel:
The Adoration of the Lamb
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The altarpiece was begun by Hubert van Eyck before 1426, the year in which he died, and completed by his younger brother Jan in 1432. There is an article about the painting and its chequered history here, which includes expandable details of all the panels.
The complete interior of the altarpiece.
Image:blogs.artinfo.com
The complete interior of the altarpiece.
Image:blogs.artinfo.com
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