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Art historians have long speculated on how Vermeer achieved the uncanny mixture of detached precision, compositional repose, and perspective accuracy that have drawn many to describe his work as "photographic." Indeed, many wonder if Vermeer employed a camera obscura, a primitive form of camera, to enhance his realistic effects?
In Vermeer's Camera, Philip Steadman traces the development of the camera obscura--first described by Leonaro da Vinci--weighs the arguments that...
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Philip Steadman's remarkable book Vermeer's Camera cracks an artistic enigma that has haunted art history for centuries. Over the years, artists and art historians have marveled at the extraordinary visual realism of the paintings of the 17th-century Dutch painter Jan Vermeer. The painter's spectacular View of Delft, painted around 1661, and the beautiful domestic interior The Music Lesson seem almost photographic in their incredible detail and precise perspective. Since...
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Controversy about Vermeer's use of the camera obscura
The suggestion that Vermeer might have employed some optical device as an aid to painting is more than a hundred years old. From the 1890s up to the 1980s a broad consensus built amongst Vermeer scholars, that the artist seems likely to have made use of the camera obscura - though the exact details of this technique remained uncertain....
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0192803026
- ISBN 13 9780192803023
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