The Lost Panel

For six centuries, the world has worshipped Jan van Eyck’s Ghent altarpiece. Few know that the painter hid something inside it. Fewer still know he killed to protect it.

When a fragment of a lost Nazi diary surfaces in Ghent, young art historian Sophia Rossi stumbles onto a trail long dismissed as myth—a trail leading to the missing panel of the altarpiece, stolen in 1934 and never recovered. The diary hints at something far older buried within the painting’s creation: a relic smuggled out...