Vanity Fair: NewTek founder "Solves" Vermeer's technique

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David Hockney and others have speculated—controversially—that a camera obscura could have helped the Dutch painter Vermeer achieve his photo-realistic effects in the 1600s. But no one understood exactly how such a device might actually have been used to paint masterpieces. An inventor in Texas—the subject of a new documentary by the magicians Penn & Teller—may have solved the riddle.

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/11/vermeer-secret-tool-mirrors-lenses

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