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Oct 2, 2024
You haven't seen complexity in art until you've seen this 600-year-old painting. It's so detailed that modern medicine has been able to diagnose this man's exact type of blindness. And that's where...
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A detailed analysis of Jan van Eyck's 1436 painting reveals extraordinary complexity: doctors have diagnosed the commissioner's temporal arteritis through painted symptoms, the entire scene appears to be the man's meditative vision, and van Eyck included a microscopic self-portrait in armor reflection positioned exactly where he wants viewers to stand for optimal immersion.
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