Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/02
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Hello all. Missed me? :)
For:
".. In
Allegory of the Faith, much of the left foreground is masked with a curtain.
But close inspection of three blobs reflected in a sphere in the extreme
background revealed the reflection of the three windows that appear in the
other paintings, the last of which is itself shut tered off as it would have
to have been if there was a camera obscura there.
'That is exactly where the camera would have to be, and at precisely that
point, Vermeer with his own hand has painted a mysterious black box - his
camera obscura.'
Further mathematical analysis, he said, showed that the projected image was
exactly the same size as the painting, another telltale trait of the camera
obscura..."
look at:
http://www.mystudios.com/vermeer/33/vermeer-faith-detail-crystal.html
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St.
(Stanislaw B.A. Stawowy)
http://www.geocities.com/Stanislaw_Stawowy
Echelon/Carnivore lines: Bob Black, Hakim Bey,
Ralph Klein, Sabotage in the American Workplace