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On ‘Vanity’ (Memling):

“[In nudes] the subject is aware of being seen by the spectator. The mirror was often used a symbol of the vanity of woman. The moralising, however, was mostly hypocritical. You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, you put a mirror in her hand you called the painting Vanity, thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure.”

“…a woman’s self [is] split into two. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself…the surveyor and the surveyed [are] two constituent yet always distinct elements of her identity as a woman.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at…The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. This she turns herself into an object of vision: a sight.”

I am not catching strays while reading this, I am taking direct hits