Peteykins' Image Gallery Old Favorites 2 / vaneyck   Footnotes 1. Panofsky, Erwin. Early Netherlandish Painting. Cambridge, 1953. This book, using The Arnolfini Portrait as an example, popularized the notion of "hidden symbolism" in paintings of this period. Most interpretations of this painting are dependent on his sometimes erroneous reading. 2. Hall, Edwin. The Arnolfini Betrothal. Berkely, 1994. Hall brilliantly demonstrates in this monograph on the painting that most of the ordinary objects in the painting are... ordinary objects. 3. Harbison, Craig. "Sexuality and Social Standing in Jan van Eyke's Arnolfini Double Portrait." Renaissance Quarterly 43 (1990): 249-291. 4. Panofsky, I:203. This notion is based on a single undocumented statement hundreds of years later. 5. True news item from CNN.com. 07/16/03 gallery index