> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Igor Roshchin
> I suspect Paul knows this, but in case other people don't... > > A few years ago, a physicist Charles Falco in collaboration > with David Hockney (artist and art historian), has demonstrated > that a lot of renaissance artists were using lenses and mirrors > to project images - so that they can paint some elements of the > picture over the projected image. This is called "Hockney-Falco" > thesis. > > You can read more about this here: > http://www.optics.arizona.edu/ssd/art-optics/index.html > > I heard several talks/lectures of Charlie, and even had a chance of > hosting one of them at Texas A&M University. > While some art historians might disagree (they think that Falco-Hockney > are trying to take down the importance of the particular classical > artists, which is not the case), as a scientist, I am very much > convinced by the arguments made by these guys. I have a very good book called Vermeer's Camera in which the author puts forward his argument for the idea that Vermeer used a camera obscura. There is a web page to accompany it: http://www.vermeerscamera.co.uk/home.htm There are contemporary pictures that show draughtmen using various optical devices as drawing aids since at least the Renaissance. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
