I love this piece, and your paper is very well written! We just discussed this in art history, and it was actually my first choice for this project. I was hoping you might present the more recent studies that have been made of the portrait, which have led scholars to believe it is not actually a wedding portrait. Rather, it is now supposed to have been started as a tribute to an already married couple in celebration that the wife was indeed pregnant. The wife died in childbirth, and that is why there is a burned down candle on the wife's side and a lit one on the husband's side. It is also why the dog was added [ the dog was not in the original under-drawing. ] The dog is supposed to be a symbol of the husband's devotion to the memory of his deceased wife. The couple pictured were real people, but not the real people that it was originally believed to be. The confusion of the two Giovanni Arnolfinis is the reason it got the original title of a wedding portrait.