The Arnolfini Portrait
The convex mirror is famous for reflecting the room from behind, including the painter. What most viewers miss is the frame around it. It holds ten roundels, each smaller than a fingernail, each painted with a different scene from the Passion of Christ. Van Eyck painted ten Passion paintings inside one wedding painting. They are barely a centimetre across. Now at The National Gallery, London @nationalgallery
- Artist
- Jan van Eyck (c. 1390 to 1441)
- Date
- 1434
- Medium
- Oil on oak panel
- Dimensions
- 82.2 × 60 cm
- Collection
- The National Gallery, London
- Image
- Wikimedia Commons · Public domain