Tag: Rembrandt
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Drawing with or without lenses and mirrors. Craving for meaning in life. Science as a dead-end.
In a paper published in the Journal of Optics, Mr. O’Neill lays out a theory that Rembrandt set up flat and concave mirrors to project his subjects - including himself - onto surfaces before painting or etching them. He is not the first to suggest that old master painters used optics for their famous portraits.…
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