El Croquis Blog — Langarita y Navarro

Against Incontinence An Interview with Emilio Tuñón and Carlos Martínez Albornoz,by María Langarita and Víctor Navarro Published in El Croquis 223 Tuñón y Albornoz 2015 2023.     The Arnolfini Portrait, by the Flemish painter Jan van Eyck, shows a rich young merchant and his wife, holding hands in a domestic interior in15th-century Bruges. A peculiar convex mirror between the couple reflects them from behind, showing us a third person in the room that we could not have otherwise seen. This specular effect, which reveals the presence of a disembodied being on the side of the viewer, influenced Velázquez in the...