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Selected Works Mirror, Mirror on the Wall!

Mirrors, reflections, flashes of light and transparency are the criteria chosen for this selection of artworks. Through these optical effects, artists show how mirrors, reflections and transparency can multiply perspectives, rendering the artist’s proposal more complex and enigmatic.

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Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities

Mirror

Late fourth century BCE

Italy
Decorative Arts

Diamond, known as the...
Decorative Arts

Rock-crystal mirror

C. 1630
Decorative Arts

Attributed to Jean LIMOSIN

Mirror with Inner Compartment

C. 1615
Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities

Mirror

Thebes, Greece
Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities

Mirror with baluster handle

End of first century BC-first half of first century AD

Discovered in 1895 at Boscoreale in a Roman...
Paintings

Joseph WRIGHT, also known as WRIGHT OF DERBY (Derby,...

Lake Nemi, Sunset

1790
Paintings

Tiziano VECELLIO, known as TITIAN (Pieve di Cadore,...

Woman with a Mirror

1512-15
Paintings

Quentin METSYS (Louvain, 1465/1466-Anvers, 1530)

The Moneylender and His Wife

1514
Paintings

Jan Davidsz. de HEEM

Still-life with Peeled Lemon
Paintings

Jean-Honoré FRAGONARD (Grasse, 1732 – Paris, 1806)

Curiosity

c. 1775-1780