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Arnolfini Portrait

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Painting · 1434 · Bruges · Europe

One of the first full-length double portraits in a room; the painter appears in the convex mirror

Arnolfini Portrait
Jan van Eyck · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Author
Jan van Eyck
Style
Northern Renaissance — Oil paint and a magnifying eye: the world as an endless sum of exact, symbol-laden things
Century
15th century

Made around the same time (±30 years)

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