Quentin Metsys - Money Exchanger with Wife (1514)


Sacred and profane live together. He checks the coins and bends over to his wife for advice, she at the same table reads the prayers and holds the sign so as not to miss the point where she arrived.
The precision of the North is the reflection in the small mirror, where we can see a window and the landscape. If we get closer to the picture we can instead read the beautiful icon of the prayer book.
Transparent glass is a work of art among the many that inhabit this canvas.

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