Painters have been lying with mirrors for 600 years
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. The Escher in Het Paleis museum in The Hague has an essay tracing t…
