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- joeboy70, on 03/11/2009, -1/+40Does this make him more or less of a genius? I vote more.
- ubernoggin, on 03/10/2009, -2/+20That is amazing, if true.
- capnawesome, on 03/11/2009, -3/+15That Michael Jackson...thing on the side there is going to haunt me in my sleep.
- EmiliaGarcia, on 03/11/2009, -3/+15This isn't exactly breaking news; art historians have known that early artists have used different types of projections for years now. Albrect Durer also used types of projections and "perspectival machines" to cast his images, but his were much less successful than Caravaggio's.
It's cool anyway. - Shigglyboo, on 03/11/2009, -0/+12This is the sort of stuff I like to see on digg. Interesting info.
- obliviousfool, on 03/11/2009, -1/+13The point of the article is not that he used a camera obscura.
The point is that he may have chemically fixed the image to the canvas.
In other words, these comments suck. - Chjohnsonbag, on 03/11/2009, -0/+10caravaggio was a baroque artist not a renaissance artist
- UberNick, on 03/11/2009, -1/+10When Hockney suggested that many of the masters used a camera obscura, the art world went ballistic. Somehow they thought this was an attempt to detract from genius and ability of the greats; though geeks like us seem to think the opposite!
- wentwhere, on 03/11/2009, -0/+8I thought that the idea of these artists using this process was commonly accepted in the art world?
Anyway I sure as hell couldn't paint like that, projection or none. - mbelrose, on 03/11/2009, -0/+8A lot of art-school graduates go baroque.
Thank you, I'll be here all week, be sure to tip your bartender. - Tr33fiddy, on 03/11/2009, -0/+6Well that knocks a couple of zeroes from the value of my collection.
- walgman, on 03/11/2009, -0/+6Martin Scorsese points to Carravaggio as an inspiration towards lighting his films.
- MelissaOfTroy, on 03/11/2009, -1/+6Has anyone read Girl With A Pearl Earring? It depicts Vermeer using this thing too and I always thought it was pretty cool.
This isn't news though. It's basic art history. - dfross, on 03/11/2009, -0/+5The main difference, if this is true, would be that Caravaggio used a "fixer", ie a way to maintain the image on the paper, after the original models had departed. Projection is one thing, and proven to be around already at the time, but using chemicals to fix the projection onto the canvas, is the impressive feat.
- zuiquan, on 03/11/2009, -1/+5Yeah he used a camera obscura.
- ap1983, on 03/11/2009, -0/+4This is cool for a few reasons, not the least of which being Caravaggio is definitely one of the most bad-ass painters who has ever walked the earth...rock on Big C!
- inactive, on 03/11/2009, -1/+3FTA -
"Caravaggio's use of mercury might explain his violent temper – prolonged exposure to the chemical can affect the central nervous system.
Caravaggio was notorious during his lifetime for becoming involved in brawls, one of which ended in the death in 1606 of a young adversary, which forced the artist to flee from Rome to Malta."
Mercurial temper! - MrChunks, on 03/11/2009, -0/+2Wasn't funny.
- imkidred, on 03/11/2009, -2/+4And? Many of the masters of the renaissance used camera obscuras to project the image onto their canvas to paint. Not sure what's so shocking about the technique being used. More interesting is the process that he developed the canvas in a way similar to photo paper.
- tg849, on 03/11/2009, -1/+3He really is a genious. Great article.
- ausoff2, on 03/31/2009, -0/+2well, back in vermeers day. No one would admit to using a camera obscura, since it was thought of as cheating. But people think vermeer did it because of odd depictions of light or expressions that a lot of artists would otherwise miss if they werent tracing.
- digitalArtform, on 03/11/2009, -0/+2Didn't David Hockney write all about this years ago?
- Screenguy, on 03/11/2009, -0/+2I wrote a rather lengthy paper on this a couple of years ago, based primarily on David Hockney's work. He wrote an entire book on the subject which is extremely interesting should you have the time to look it up at your local library. Although I agree with his hypothesis, it should be noted that it's still very much debated whether or not Caravaggio or other Renaissance painters used optical instruments such as the camera lucida or camera obscura often in their work. Most of the evidence towards the belief that they did is taken from our examination of their paintings - there's not much to be found about the issue from written sources back then such as journals, letters, etc., although the technology certainly was around.
- ausoff2, on 03/11/2009, -0/+2actually if it came out that they used that technique, they were usually severely reprimanded.
- matchboxer, on 03/11/2009, -0/+1So did Vermeer
- artfiend77, on 03/11/2009, -0/+1Really. Interesting, we had to take a photography class just to be able to take proper reference photos.
- inactive, on 03/18/2009, -0/+1Le Caravagge fut vraiment le maitre du portrait en clair obscur... et reste l'inspirateur de beaucoup de photographe:
http://www.natalyphoto.com - DotDootyDot, on 03/15/2009, -0/+1That is interesting, but I'm guessing that such a technique is awfully complicated and not pratical for an artist.
- dtmbmw, on 03/12/2009, -0/+1fireflies? I wonder if the picture would glow during nighttime lol!
- ausoff2, on 03/11/2009, -1/+2A lot of people think Vermeer used it, though, but I didn't know caravaggio did. Fascinating.
- mbelrose, on 03/11/2009, -1/+2People called comic artist Greg Land a hack for making all his comic books from traced porn, but who's laughing now?
- nemomarlin, on 03/11/2009, -2/+1kind of cheating, in a way(artistically)
- 1LuckyTexan, on 03/11/2009, -2/+1I'm suspicious of the 'crushed firefly' speculation, I suppose if they were very fresh he might quickly trace some projected outlines and dismiss the models and keep working for a little while. Dunno if that is quite 'fixing' the image in the way a modern darkroom worker thinks of 'fixing', but certainly projection of different early types was used.
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Carl - rampage88, on 03/11/2009, -8/+5Did his paintings glow?
- joe2100, on 03/11/2009, -6/+2More and Less.
- artfiend77, on 03/11/2009, -9/+3Curious, I thought this was how most of the masters created their pieces. I couldn't see myself having a model sitin front of me for four to five hours. Amazing that he did this way before cameras were invented.
- rossiprojects, on 03/11/2009, -10/+3Well, Leonardo da Vinci did it before Michelangelo Merisi nickname Caravaggio, when he made The Shroud of Turin in a dark room, but for the Roman Catholic Church it`s just another miracle of Jesus.
- TehNuge, on 03/11/2009, -10/+3And if you don't know, now you know, *****
- SoopaflySAM, on 03/11/2009, -11/+2[insert witty comment here]
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