Gilt Wood, Oil on Panel

gilt wood
oil on panel
a moment eternal
light plays with shadow
color quickens flesh
the face outlasts its maker
the dead regard us still

Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?) (detail)
Jan van Eyck, 1433
Oil on wood (oak), 26 × 19 cm


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