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  • Frontiers in Optics 2004/Laser Science XXII/Diffractive Optics and Micro-Optics/Optical Fabrication and Testing
  • OSA Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2004),
  • paper FWW5
  • https://doi.org/10.1364/FIO.2004.FWW5

Did early Renaissance masters use optical projections while painting? Image analytic, optical and historical rebuttals to the Hockney theory

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Abstract

We apply image and optical analyses to key works to test the recent claim that some Renaissance artists as early as 1420 used projections while executing their paintings. Our rigorous results, together with a careful consideration of the historical documentary record and putative “re-enactments,” show that the optical projection claim is implausible for adduced paintings of the 15th century.

© 2004 Optical Society of America

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