Did the Great Masters "Cheat" Using Optics?

Presenter Full Name
Dr. David G. Stork
Institution
Ricoh Innovations and Stanford University
Year & Semester
2003 Spring
Presentation Date
September 8, 2003

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.