Did the Great Masters "Cheat" Using Optics?

Dr. David G. Stork
Ricoh Innovations and Stanford University

Darwin 103
4:00 PM

Dr. David G. Stork of Ricoh Innovations and Stanford University will describe the mysterious rise in naturalism in Renaissance painting and the claim that Renaissance artists employed optical devices such as concave mirrors to project images onto their canvases, which they then traced or painted over.