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Tim’s Vermeer, Reconsidered
David G. Stork
A recent documentary feature film, Tim’s Vermeer, proposes that Johannes Vermeer secretly used a catadioptric telescope and novel mirror–comparator procedure to create his sublime paintings of domestic interiors. How well does that bold hypothesis stand up to analysis?
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Publish Date: 01 March 2021