Title: [David Hockney's Secret knowledge]
Description: Investigation of how early painters used simple cameras to capture realistic images--400 years before the invention of the photograph. Examines works by Jan Van Eyck, Vermeer, Holbein, Caravaggio and Velazquez. Demonstrates methods using camera lucida, camera obscura and convex mirrors.
Subjects: Realism in art, Painting, Technique, History, Camera obscuras, Camera lucidas, Renaissance Painting, Painting from photographs