Vermeer Was Using a Camera Before Photography Was a Thing
Johannes Vermeer is best known today for painting The Girl with a Pearl Earing but some have pointed out that pretty much all of his works seem to have been created in the same space. Many believe he used a camera obscura to create his incredibly realistic works.
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This episode is about Johannes Vermeer and the theory that he used a camera obscura to paint his incredibly detailed works such as The Girl with a Pearl Earing and The Music Lesson.
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