Jason Farago reviews A New Look at a Van Eyck Masterpiece at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on view through April 24, 2016.

Farago writes that this focused exhibition, "highly specialized yet not inaccessible, undertakes a forensic probe into the Met’s van Eycks as well as a seemingly related drawing, rediscovered in 2012 and lent by the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam… The connoisseurship helps ground these unapproachably impeccable paintings in the real world of brushes and pencils, and reveals the deep human structure of art that sometimes seems as forbidding as God’s own handiwork."