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Mirror of Community
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
A youth and an old man look together into a large mirror and see their reflection. In the background left Pythagoras shows two youths a mirror. Right in the background Socrates shows his pupils a mirror. The print has a Latin inscription: 'Naturam iuvat artis opus; specvloque magistro, Praecipit arcans emaculare notas'. At the bottom a legend of the scenes which are numbered alphabetically on the image. The print is part of a twelve-print series (I out of XII prints) with the subject twelve mirrors with which man tries to see God.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineSpiegel der Gemeenschap. 1610. Theodoor Galle. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
