1. The working title my book is The Reversed Painting in Western Art.
2. Victor I. Stoichita,The Self-Aware Image: An Insight into Early Modern Meta-Painting, trans. Anne-Marie Glasheen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 114.
3. Zirka Zarema Filipczac,Picturing Art in Antwerp 1550–1700(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987), 152.
4. Svetlana Alpers,The Vexations of Art: Velázquez and Others(New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005), 217.