Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Through the Looking-Glass: A Gallery of Mirrors


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Nahshon (detail): Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1511-1512, fresco, Cappella Sistina, Vatican


In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room...



Young Woman in front of a Mirror (detail): Giovanni Bellini, 1515 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)


The Penitent Magdalen
: Georges de La Tour, 1638-1643 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)


The Moneylender and His Wife
: Quentin Massys, 1514 (Musée du Louvre, Paris)


The Moneylender and His Wife (detail)
: Quentin Massys, 1514 (Musée du Louvre, Paris)


Diane de Poitiers: Master of the Fontainebleu School, c. 1590 (Offentliche Kunstsammlung, Basle)

St. Eligius in his workshop: Christus Petrus, 1440 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)

St. Eligius in his workshop (detail): Christus Petrus, 1440 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)

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Young woman behind a screen regarding herself in
a mirror:
Kitagawa Utamaro, 18th c.

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Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife (detail): Jan van Eyck, 1434 (National Gallery, London)

Franciscan Allegories: Allegory of Obedience (detail): Giotto di Bondone, 1330, fresco, Lower Church, San Francesco, Assisi


Les Vieilles or Time and the Old Women
: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, 1810-1812 (Musée de Beaux-Arts, Lille)



Self-Portrait in Convex Mirror: Parmigianino, c. 1524 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)