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Also, by the 1430s artists were using projected light with a
lens to trace the basic shapes of images for paintings which they then
painted in. For instance, a person could stand outside and a lens
would focus the image onto a canvas which would then be traced (the image was
upside down...but a flip of the canvas corrected that - except left/right was
also reversed).
People were far more advanced back in the middle ages than most people
think.
****************************** Larry Roux Syracuse University lroux@xxxxxxx ******************************* >>> incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 08/06/03 05:12PM >>> Hi everyone, At 12:55 06/08/2003 -0700, Bruce Grant wrote: >Barbara Barrett wrote: > > I wonder how many listers realise that the artists tool, the "light > > box", was actually invented in the 7th Century AD... Well... Bishop Eadfrith, according to http://www.education.guardian.co.uk/higher/artsandhumanities/story/0,12241,955339,00.html "...must have pioneered the medieval equivalent of the light box to secure the details in his illustrations." I'm not sure that stands up as proof, though - do you have a better reference than this, Barbara? >This is very interesting. What did they use for a light source? It seems >like candles would be too dim and too variable - maybe reflected sunlight? >Or was it something as simple (but awkward) as pressing the page against a >vertical window? Here's someone with much the same theory as you, Bruce:- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Celtic_Art/message/1031?source=1 But didn't even moderately-sized flat sheets of glass require a separate (much later) technological revolution? Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with a body saying: unsubscribe vms-list |