Tim's Vermeer

[laika]

“I just wanted to demonstrate that a comparator could explain a lot about Renaissance art,” [Tim] Jenison added. “I think I have succeeded — not a hundred percent, but the likelihood is quite good that Vermeer did something like this."

 

[Enyaw]

I'm sure if he did it was a well guarded secret.

 

[Bartc]

Some years ago, Hockney filmed a video proving that Vermeer used a camera obscura.

 

[joe1It]

I saw the documentary ,I could not see the final part, however here narrates what it showed. yes Peter and Teller were present.

 

[Terri]

“I just wanted to demonstrate that a comparator could explain a lot about Renaissance art,” [Tim] Jenison added. “I think I have succeeded — not a hundred percent, but the likelihood is quite good that Vermeer did something like this."

Fascinating! Thanks, Lamar!

 

[laika]

Some years ago, Hockney filmed a video proving that Vermeer used a camera obscura.

Yes, and Hockney is featured in this documentary. Also, "Professor Philip Steadman (seen in the film) caused a sensation in the art world in 2001 when he published his book Vermeer's Camera."

I'd like to see the documentary to see how the comparator differs from the camera obscura.

 

[Artyczar]

Great doc. I loved it!

 

[joe1It]

it seems to me that
now I don't even remember exactly anymore, but he used like a reflected mirror, like in the photo where you can see the first test he does from a face in a photo,
therefore, he had placed side by side, almost united the photo and the painting that he made and therefore decided to stop when they really matched, you couldn't distinguish them.

 

[joe1It]

while I was watching the documentary I was wondering if it was like this, if Caravaggio had also used a system similar to this, camerascura, other, if they would have mentioned him, they name him at a certain point in Caravaggio and also with 2 or 3 other artists, now I don't remember the others. Caravaggio because that's why I started seeing paintings and wanting to learn how to draw and because in his paintings there don't seem to be any sisigns, preparatory steps
Caravaggio, it seems to me that I have never read any drawings by him, and somewhere else they said that he used a sort of darkroom. .

yes, the author of book Vermeer's Camera is in the documentary, I didn't know the book. Maybe I had read some controversies.
which artists do you believe had a similar way of painting, I remember Canaletto as one of the first who used an ancestor of the camera. Canaletto's paintings are very beautiful.

 

[Enyaw]

Interesting Indeed. especially Hockney