The bridge over the abyss. Great masters

What appeared before - a person or a mirror? This question is asked by Paola Dmitrievna Volkova in the fourth volume of the cycle "bridge over the abyss". For the great masters, the portrait has always been not just an image of a person, but also a mirror that reflects not only external, but also internal beauty. Self -portrait is a question for yourself, reflection and the next answer behind them. Diego Velazquez, Rembrandt, El Greco, Albrecht Durer and Vincent Van Gogh - they all leave us a bitter confession of a lifetime in this genre. Which mirrors had the beauty beauties who pretended? Venus, ascending from the waters, saw her reflection and was satisfied with herself, and Narcissus - froze forever, shocked by his own beauty. The canvases, reflecting in the time of the Renaissance only an ideal image, and later the personality of a person, became eternal mirrors for anyone who dares to look into them-like into the abyss-for real