Van Eyck's "Miracle of Composition":
Ante-Deleuzian Crystals of Space/Time in the Arnolfini Portrait
In the postmodern era, aesthetic experience, the very notion of looking, has been transformed for the viewer whose technologically enhanced gaze penetrates into the hidden dimensions of works such as Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait (1434).
This study begins with the following premise: Working to resolve the technical challenges involved in representing this betrothal scene three-dimensionally and from multiple perspectives, van Eyck has created an enfolded work whose spatial configurations bear remarkable resemblances to those of holography.