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Painters have been lying with mirrors for 600 years

Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful Things [Unofficia… April 17, 2026
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In René Magritte's 1937 painting La Reproduction Interdite — roughly "depiction prohibited," or "depiction impossible" — a man stands before a mirror and sees the back of his own head.

Artists have been putting trick mirrors into paintings for about 600 years. — Read the rest

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