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3. Art in Detail
Convex Mirrors in Art
Reflecting the Invisible or Distorting the Visible

4. The convex mirror permits the viewer to see beyond the bounds of the painting in its frame.
It becomes a picture within a picture...

6. CHRISTUS, Petrus
St Eligius in His Workshop

7. CHRISTUS, Petrus
St Eligius in His Workshop
1449
Oil on panel, 98 x 85 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

8. In the mirror’s reflection are two dandified male figures, one of whom holds a falcon, a symbol of greed and pride
... the imperfect world of the viewer and the world of virtue depicted in the goldsmith’s shop.

14. JUAN DE FLANDES
The Marriage Feast at Cana

15. JUAN DE FLANDES
The Marriage Feast at Cana
1500
Oil on wood, 20 x 15 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

16. ... a Flemish painter in the service of Isabella of Castile:
the convex mirror, seen behind the married couple, is a common motif in Netherlandish painting

21. PARMIGIANINO
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

22. PARMIGIANINO
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
c. 1524
Oil on wood, diameter 24,4 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

23. Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror:
distorted perspective painted on a convex wooden panel

27. METSYS, Quentin
The Moneylender and his Wife
Musée du Louvre, Paris

28. METSYS, Quentin
The Moneylender and his Wife
1514
Oil on panel, 71 x 68 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

29. Convex mirrors allowed bankers, goldsmiths and moneylenders to monitor the whole of a room at a glance ...
a helpful tool in keeping an eye on potentially unscrupulous types visiting their establishment.

33. CAMPIN, Robert, MASTER of Flémalle
Saint John the Baptist and the Franciscan Heinrich von Werl

34. CAMPIN, Robert, Master of Flémalle
Saint John the Baptist and the
Franciscan Heinrich von Werl
1438
Oil on panel, 101 x 47 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

35. a convex mirror reflects the scene back into the room ...
a clear reference to the work of Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait

39. MEMLING, Hans
Diptych of Maarten Nieuwenhove

40. MEMLING, Hans
Diptych of Maarten Nieuwenhove; Virgin and
Child (left panel), Maarten van Nieuwenhove (right
panel)
1487
Oil on oak panel, 52 x 41,5 cm (each)
Memlingmuseum, Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges

41. ... the Flemish tradition of a van Eyck
as in Arnolfini Portrait, a convex mirror hangs on the wall behind the Virgin and captures the entire scene.

45. BOTTICELLI, Sandro
Madonna of the Magnificat

46. BOTTICELLI, Sandro
Madonna of the Magnificat
1480-81
Tempera on panel, diameter 118 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

47. ... famous round painting:
the figures appear as if reflected in a convex mirror

52. EYCK, Jan van
Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife

53. EYCK, Jan van
Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his
Wife
1434
Oil on oak, 82 x 60 cm
National Gallery, London

54. two tiny figures - the painter himself and a young man - that perhaps arriving to act as witnesses to the marriage
the floor and the ceiling of the room
the sky and the garden outside, visible through the side window
... Van Eyck's convex mirror It sucks the entire visual world into itself, transforming it into a representation

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