From an article in the guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/mar/11/caravaggio-art-studio-photography-first#
Revered as the baroque master of lifelike portraits and light and shadow, the 16th-century painter Caravaggio is now being touted as the first master of photographic technique, two centuries before the formal invention of the camera.
The Italian artist has long been suspected of turning his studio into a giant camera obscura, punching a hole in the ceiling to help project images on to his canvas. But new research claims that Caravaggio also used chemicals to turn his canvases into primitive photographic film, "burning" images he then sketched on to for works such as St Matthew and the Angel.
4 comments:
wow. so cool/interesting.
i had heard similar ideas to this before.
regardless, still awesome paintings. i'd have to say he's my fave, historically speaking.
that's cool!
If only projecting made for great painting. Obviously not the caase, it's a good start and saves time but really it's just like using a ruler or a tape measure. After you measure, you still need a hell of a lot of skill to pull off a Carravaggio!
Very cool.
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