For more than a hundred years, it has been suggested that the great 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer made use of the camera obscura as an aid to painting. The camera obscura was the ...

"Vermeer's Camera," Vermeer (1632-1675) may have paved the way for photography itself by his use of a camera obscura. Most art historians now believe that Vermeer used this optical convenience ...

Weber speculates that Vermeer could have acquired Van der Mye’s camera obscura after the priest’s death in 1656. He goes on to write: “Light and optics were a major focus of Jesuit ...

but the Jesuit mission in Delft was feet from Vermeer’s door. Weber has further identified a drawing by a Delft-based priest, Isaac van der Mye, as the probable product of a camera obscura, and ...

In particular, he revived an idea first floated in the 1920s that Vermeer made his paintings from inside a room-size camera obscura, a device that operates like a pinhole camera. The artist David ...

Speculation has swirled for years that Vermeer experimented with a camera obscura for his works, which are renowned for their use of light and shade. The Jesuits "regarded the camera obscura as a ...

Weber, though, proposes that Vermeer obtained a camera obscura—in which a chink of light in an otherwise shuttered chamber produces an inverted image of the outside world—from a Jesuit church ...

I was really surprised.” And since then? “I’ve been busy with Vermeer. A lifetime,” he replies. At 18, Weber built a camera obscura, or pinhole camera, at home to test whether Vermeer ...

Speculation has swirled for years that Vermeer experimented with a camera obscura for his works, which are renowned for their use of light and shade. The Jesuits “regarded the camera obscura as a tool ...

Speculation has swirled for years that Vermeer experimented with a camera obscura for his works, which are renowned for their use of light and shade. The Jesuits “regarded the camera obscura as ...