Art, Optics and History: New Light on the Hockney Thesis
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David Hockney’s recent book Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters argues that 15thcentury painters employed optical devices to achieve realistic portraiture. A reexamination of the history of optical projection techniques raises problems for Hockney’s provoc-
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