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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 Velázquez. Demonstrates methods using camera lucida, camera obscura and convex mirrors.

Realism in art. --- Painting --- Camera obscuras. --- Camera lucidas. --- Painting, Renaissance --- Painting from photographs. --- Technique --- History. --- History.