This painting is 600 years old. And that mirror in the background is barely ten centimetres across, yet it contains a reflection of the entire room. Including the artist at work, one of the greatest painters who ever lived, a man called Jan van Eyc

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This painting is 600 years old. And that mirror in the background is barely ten centimetres across, yet it contains a reflection of the entire room. Including the artist at work, one of the greatest painters who ever lived, a man called Jan van Eyc

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