There are paintings that carry within them an aura of mystery and whose symbolism is enigmatic, as the motives of the commissioning and the experience that determined the work are not known exactly.
One such case is undoubtedly Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait, painted in 1434 and preserved in The National Gallery in London.
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