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"textContent": "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.\n\nArtists have been putting trick mirrors into paintings for about 600 years. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Painters have been lying with mirrors for 600 years appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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