Most historians believe that the older name for Ghent, 'Ganda', is derived from the Celtic word ganda, which means confluence. ( May 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īrchaeological evidence shows human presence around the confluence of the Scheldt and the Leie going back as far as the Stone Age and the Iron Age. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. The ten-day-long Ghent Festival ( Gentse Feesten) is held every year and attended by about 1–1.5 million visitors. The current mayor of Ghent is Mathias De Clercq ( Open Vld). The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of 1,205 km 2 (465 sq mi) and had a total population of 560,522 as of 1 January 2018, which ranks it as the fourth most populous in Belgium. With 262,219 inhabitants at the beginning of 2019, Ghent is Belgium's second largest municipality by number of inhabitants. The municipality comprises the city of Ghent proper and the surrounding suburbs of Afsnee, Desteldonk, Drongen, Gentbrugge, Ledeberg, Mariakerke, Mendonk, Oostakker, Sint-Amandsberg, Sint-Denijs-Westrem, Sint-Kruis-Winkel, Wondelgem and Zwijnaarde. The city originally started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Leie and in the Late Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe, with some 50,000 people in 1300. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in size only by Brussels and Antwerp. Descriptive text and image alterations (hence the whole new image) © by Sue Kouma Johnson - CatholicArtAndJewelry.Ghent ( Dutch: Gent ( listen) French: Gand ( listen) Medieval English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. You might also enjoy original Catholic Art and Jewerly by me, Sue Kouma Johnson, here on Etsy at Also, check out our Catholic Quote shop, where we are pairing authentic quotes from Saints with Art: "In order to communicate the message entrusted to her by Christ, the Church needs art." ~ St. Enclosed in a tight-fitting, crystal clear bag. Archival pigments, rated to last for generations. It also gives the prints a finished look, and lets them look good in a frame without a matt. All Approx! Fine art printers do this because the images are almost never the same rectangular ratio of the standard paper sizes. ** IMPORTANT ** THE IMAGE IS SMALLER THAN THE PAPER! There is a white border of about 0.5" inch for 5x7", 1.3" for 8.5x11", or 1.6" for 11x14" pictures. The Latin above Mary's head, HEC E SPECIOSIOR SOLE + SVP OEM STELLARV DISPOSICOEM LVCI, is from the Book of Wisdom, 7:29: "She is more splendid than the sun she outshines all the constellations she is more radiant than light itself." It is attributed to the Early Flemish painters and brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck It still has the joy of the faith from the older times, but it also has the human details and absolute skill mastery of what will become the competitive genius of Renaissance painting. What we love about the Ghent Altarpiece, finished about 1432, is that it's kind of a turning point between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
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