In older paintings, they’re a symbol of Egypt, but when artists travelled more in the 19th century they became fairly popular in landscape paintings. Examples from 1500 to 1927.
Bonnard
Kabkabs worn by Turkish ladies in the Hammam, from-frou high heels with pointed toes, red shoes unsuited to the mountains, shiny black patent leather shoes, and kinky black boots.
Walnuts providing food, fine wood, and a drying oil used as an alternative to linseed; almonds that may have a high cyanide content, but are still eaten. Paintings from Piero to Bonnard.
After reaching a peak around 1909, in 1916 Bonnard suddenly stopped painting mirror play, and didn’t resume until the 1930s.
For over 40 years, Bonnard used mirror play in many of his paintings of intimate domestic scenes, often involving his partner Marthe as model.
Paintings by Helen Allingham, Willard Metcalf, Pierre Bonnard, JW Waterhouse, Nikolai Astrup, and others.
She married publishing magnate Alfred Edwards and cruised on their large yacht. In 1909 she divorced and married a Spanish painter, while being a major patron of Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes.
After marrying her cousin, the couple entertained Proust, Mallarmé, Gide, Debussy, and were patrons of Monet, Renoir, Odilon Redon, Signac and Toulouse-Lautrec.
Unusual self-portraits painted using mirrors by Courbet, Corinth, Bonnard, Gentileschi, Peeters, and Velázquez.
New series describing and illustrating how reflections have been painted in European and American art, from the early Renaissance to the 20th century.
