Van Eyck Paints the Arnolfini Portrait
1434
In Bruges, Jan Van Eyck finished a small oil panel of a merchant and his wife in a bedchamber, his hand on hers, a convex mirror on the back wall reflecting two witnesses including, probably, the painter himself. Nothing quite like this psychological and spatial intimacy had been painted before.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.