Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait

The mirror depicts the artist's professionally high skills, and includes ten detailed miniatures depicting the life and death of Jesus Christ. Much attention should be paid to the reflection of the mirror glass, which shows four images of people - the young couple from behind, the artist himself, and possibly the official witness of the marriage. Jan van Eick's Gothic calligraphic Latin signature was used in various normative documents, so it is believed that the painting served as a "marriage certificate" that required the signature of a witness to the ceremony - "Jan van Eick was here in ‘’1434" that you can see above the mirror.…