Image display device and projector

The present invention obtains an image having more appropriately improved visibility. A video display device includes: a video input unit; a first Retinex processing unit that performs first Retinex processing on the image input from the image input unit; a second Retinex processing unit that performs second Retinex processing on the video input from the video input unit, the second Retinex processing being different from the first Retinex processing; an image compositing unit capable of compositing the image processed by the first Retinex processing unit and the image processed by the second Retinex processing unit on the basis of the characteristics of the image input from the image input unit; and a display unit capable of displaying an image based on an output image of the image synthesis unit, the image synthesis unit performing a brightness level conversion process in a process for synthesizing the image processed by the first Retinex processing unit and the image processed by the second Retinex process