Inside the Camera Obscura: Optics and Art
by COLLECTIONAcademic preprint collection (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Preprint 333, 2007) examining the optical camera obscura in early modern Europe. Covers optical theory from Alhazen through Kepler, lens and mirror technology, and the relationship between optical projection and 17th-century painting. Includes chapters on optics, lenses, mirrors, and discussions of camera obscura use by painters including Vermeer, with analysis of painting techniques and optical theory.
Table of Contents:
Part I – Introducing an Instrument:
- p.5 The Optical Camera Obscura I: A Short Exposition — Wolfgang Lefèvre
- p.13 The Optical Camera Obscura II: Images and Texts — Norma Wenczel
- p.31 Projecting Nature in Early-Modern Europe — Michael John Gorman
Part II – Optics:
- p.53 Alhazen's Optics in Europe — Abdelhamid I. Sabra
- p.59 Playing with Images in a Dark Room: Kepler's Ludi inside the Camera Obscura — Sven Dupré
- p.75 Images: Real and Virtual, Projected and Perceived, from Kepler to Dechales — Alan E. Shapiro
- p.95 Res Aspectabilis Cujus Forma Luminis Beneficio per Foramen Transparet — Isabelle Pantin
- p.105 Clair & Distinct: Seventeenth-Century Conceptualizations of the Quality of Images — Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis
Part III – Lenses and Mirrors:
- p.117 The Optical Quality of Seventeenth-Century Lenses — Giuseppe Molesini
- p.129 The Camera Obscura and the Availability of Seventeenth-Century Optics — Tiemen Cocquyt
- p.141 Comments on 17th-Century Lenses and Projection — Klaus Staubermann
Part IV – Painting:
- p.149 The Camera Obscura as a Model of a New Concept of Mimesis in Seventeenth-Century Painting — Carsten Wirth
- p.195 Painting Technique in the Seventeenth Century in Holland and the Possible Use of the Camera Obscura by Vermeer — Karin Groen
- p.211 Neutron-Autoradiography of two Paintings by Jan Vermeer in the Gemäldegalerie Berlin — Claudia Laurenze-Landsberg
- p.227 Gerrit Dou and the Concave Mirror — Philip Steadman
- p.243 Imitation, Optics and Photography: Some Gross Hypotheses — Martin Kemp
- p.265 List of Contributors
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