Saturday, November 11, 2006

Eleven Mirrors (November Special)




Hans Memling - Earthly Vanity (c. 1485)




Giovanni Bellini - Naked Young Woman in Front of the Mirror (1515)




Parmigianino - Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror (c. 1524)




Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - Narcissus (1598-99)




Peter Paul Rubens - Venus at a Mirror (c. 1615)




Georges de la Tour - The Penitent Magdalen (1638)




Diego Velasquez - Venus at her Mirror (1649-51)




Jean- Baptiste Greuze - The Broken Mirror (1763)




Rene Magritte - Dangerous Liaison (1926)




Pablo Picasso - Girl Before a Mirror (1932)




Barbara Kruger - Who's the Fairest of them All? (date unknown)


"The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied."

Confucious