Reverse

Giorgio didn't produce photographs, but mirror images of his sitters almost as though he had placed a mirror in front of them and painted from what he saw in the mirror. But when Giorgio painted, there wasn’t a mirror in sight. How he managed to reverse the images was uncertain but he did so without recourse to any gadgets or tricks, he simply painted what he saw in his subjects. And therefore, the sitter would see exactly what he or she was used to seeing. And the greater the vanity of the sitter, the more likely it was to please.