It is 996AD in Anjou, France...life is dangerous for all as Counts try to steal lands and cities from each other. A time to build castles that will withstand a siege.... and cathedrals to the praise of God. At a time when one 'lived by the sword and ...
Fifteenth-century painter Jan Van Eyck becomes a pawn in the hands of nefarious plotters in the court of Philip, Duke of Burgundy, but nonetheless manages to create a great masterwork, the Ghent altarpiece...