cts between England and the European sub-continent of Asia and vice versa. As someone who had been born to a very rich family in Yorkshire, who suffered bankruptcy in 1929-33, and had to move south to North London, my mother was an avid collector of fine cloth, with which she made all of her day to day working attire, a fact that was no doubt attributable to instilling in me a mindset attuned to exploring The Art of the Possible.
Jan van Eyck was a master of rendering perspective. The Arnolfini Portrait famously includes a convex mirror in the background—if the convex side was silvered and employed as a mirror, it is likely that the concave side could as well have been used to project the image.My grateful thanks to Sea Glassman and Gregory Shepard for drawing
my attention to this artsy.net piece, and in so doing reminding me
that this Portrait was first displayed at the National Gallery in London,
around the same time that THE SCHOOL in Tackley was originally
built "for the education of the children of the poor residing in or
belonging to the Parish of Tackley" and during our family's occupation
of that converted school, I seem to recollect a visit to Kelmscott Manor
and seeing such a convex mirror there.
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