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The Just Judges
The Just Judges or The Righteous Judges is the lower left panel of the "Ghent Altarpiece", painted by Jan van Eyck or his brother Hubert Van Eyck between 1430–32. It is believed that the panel shows portraits of several contemporary figures such as Philip the Good, and possibly the artists Hubert and Jan van Eyck themselves. The panel was stolen in 1934 and has never been found.
Theft.
The panel was displayed at the Saint Bavo Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium together with the rest of
intimate connection between creator and created than the traditional model whereby the world is created "ex nihilo" and sustained by a God distanced and separate from the creation. However, this same ‘mother’ who ‘bodies forth’ the cosmos cares for it with a fierce justice, which demands that all life (not just humankind) has its share of the creator's care and sustenance in a just, ecological economy where all her creatures flourish. For McFague, God is the one ‘who judges those who thwart the well