[TCF] The mysterious optical device Jan van Eyck may have used to paint his masterpieces – new research

Van Eyck is famed for his empirical use of perspective, yet many have struggled to find geometrical coherence in his representation of space. In one of his most celebrated works, the Arnolfini Portrait, which depicts a wealthy, Italian married couple, it is seemingly impossible to find a single vanishing point – the spot furthest from the viewer, at which all of the parallel lines in a p...