Mise en abyme
Mise en abyme ( French pronunciation: [miz‿ɑ̃n‿abim] ; also mise en abîme ) is a term originally from the French and means "placed into abyss ". The commonplace usage of this phrase is describing the visual experience of standing between two mirrors , seeing an infinite reproduction of one's image, but it has several other meanings in the realm of the creative arts and literary theory . In Western art history , " mise en abyme " is a formal technique in which an image contains a smaller copy of itself, the sequence appearing to recur infinitely. [From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_en_abyme ] * Velasquez's "The Maids of Honor" (1656) [From Photobucket]