The Arnolfini Portrait, a main attraction at London's National Gallery, has received a new frame intended to reshape how viewers see the famed Jan van Eyck painting. It is normal for beloved ...

In September 1815, Karl von Müffling, the Prussian governor of Paris, presented himself at the doors of the Louvre and ordered its French guards to step aside.

The Arnolfini Portrait is as enigmatic as it is iconic. Painted by Jan van Eyck in 1434, it spawns a lot of speculation – over half a millennium later, we are left with many unanswered questions.

Jan van Eyck, “Portrait of a Man (Self-Portrait?),” 1433 Vcg Wilson/Corbis, via Getty Images This painting is sometimes credited as the first surviving self-portrait, though, as its title ...

It's called the "Arnolfini Portrait". And it was painted in Bruges, a city in Belgium, by a man called Jan van Eyck. So, it looks pretty simple, doesn't it? It's just two people standing in a room ...