The Arnolfini Wedding (1434) by Jan van Eyck
The Arnolfini Wedding (Detail) (1434) by Jan van Eyck
The Arnolfini Portrait, painting by Jan van Eyck, 1434. painting is in the National Gallery, London.
In the detail view, you can see that the other perspective, the one inside the mirror’s image, is reversed — aside from being distorted by the curvature of the mirror. It’s the perspective you would see if you were inside the mirror looking back at van Eyck.
The perspective converges at the place where the image of your eye should be in the mirror, and thus places your eye simultaneously here and also infinitely far away.
Actually, you don’t see your eye in the mirror. It’s missing. You, your brushes, and your easel are missing.
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