The Public Domain Review, a new publication devoted to unusual out-of-copyright works, compiles a dizzying array of artworks inside of artworks. See a few examples in the slideshow above, as well as our own contribution, a Japanese screen depicting a stack of Japanese screens.
Roman Ruins and Sculpture (ca.1755), by Giovanni Paolo Pannini (1692–1765); Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart.
Allegory of Sight and Smell (latter 16thC.), by Jan Brueghel (1568–1625); Prado Museum, Madrid
Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Gallery in Brussels (ca.1651), by David Teniers the Younger (1610–1690); Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
A Japanese screen depicting a stack of Japanese screens (Edo period, 18th century, 5’ 7” x 12’ 4 ¾”).
