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Marc Bloom



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PostPosted: Tue 22 Feb, 2011 8:59 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote
You're thinking of what's called in English a Camera Obscura.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura

I'm not fond of Wikipedia but that's good enough. The biggest issue is that it reverses everything left to right (a sword will be in the wrong hand e.g.). Most of the more obvious distortions were corrected by the 16th/17th centuries. Sometimes the artist will leave part of the image out of focus (not an issue here).

Henrik Bjoern Boegh wrote:
Simon G. wrote:
The armour and even the people in these two paintings look strange, somewhat deformed. I see it's by the same painter. Would you know of similar armour painted by other people? Perhaps it's a peculiarity in this painter's work.

This is due to the 17th century cut of his clothes, and probably also because of the painters tecnique. I've seen in some artbooks that the artists sometimes used different tools or glasses to enable them to get the sketches drawn quickly. And the problem with these tools were that they sometimes put the proportions of the people a wee bit out of balance (sometimes too long thighs, small tummies etc.). Has anyone read anything about what these tools were?

Cheers,
Henrik
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