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The Arnolfini Portrait
Jan van Eyck · 1434 · oil on oak
NG186 · Room 56 · On display
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National Gallery
Jan van Eyck, 1434. A double portrait long read as a betrothal; the convex mirror, single candle and little dog have drawn symbolic readings for centuries.
@marian_rArt historian
The little dog is the only thing nobody had to flatter — every wiry hair painted more honestly than the faces.
@nightporterFiction
The dog speaks first: “Five hundred years we have stood like this, and still no one throws the ball.”