By looking through the camera Obscura en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura Vermeer has become expert in the way that light affects how we see the world. He has seen the world as we do not normally see it, revealed in surprising new ways invisible to the naked eye. Like the microscope, the camera obscura disclosed to its seventeenth century users truths about the natural world otherwise inaccessible to the senses. As the diplomat natural philosopher, and art enthusiast Constantijn Huygens – an acquaintance of both Vermeer and Leeuwenhoek’s – put it, with the advent of the camera obscura, “all painting is dead by comparison, for this is life itself, or something more elevated, if one could articulate it” ~ Page 4
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