Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium
  US Mountain Time
Speaker: 
Tim Jenison and Farley Ziegler, Film Producers

Our campus is closed to the public for this event.

Painting and Optics in the 17th Century: A discussion of "Tim's Vermeer"

Abstract.  I am not a painter, but with the aid of a lens and two mirrors, I succeeded in recreating Johannes Vermeer’s The Music Lesson. I have been further experimenting with additional optical methods to investigate, most recently, Vermeer’s landscape, View of Delft, as well as works by Italian master Caravaggio. I will discuss how artists of the 16th and 17th centuries could have used optics to create some of their masterpieces.

 

Purpose: 
Research Collaboration
SFI Host: 
Jessica Flack

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