The paintings are by the artist A and are titled simply as the professions of the men depicted. There is a theory that the artist used the scientist B as his model for both paintings . Both A and B were contemporaries hailing from the same small city and that has led some credence to this theory. Further, a controversial theory suggests that B produced the optical device shown in the last visual to help A in his paintings. Identify the visuals and the people involved.Update: Several correct responses but I will let it stay one more day with a hint. Both A and B are from the city of Delft in Netherlands.
Answer: A & B are Vermeer and Leeuwenhoek (remember him from high school?). Though there is little facial resemblance, there is a theory that Vermeer used Leeuwenhoek as a model for his paintings. Also, Leeuwenhoek supposedly designed a camera obscura for Vermeer to use. This is an example of a controversial theory (Hockney-Falco thesis) that suggests that the realism in the paintings of the Old Masters could have only been made possible by means of artificial aid from optical instruments. Kaushik, Ajinkya, Iam, AJ, Schmetterling, Anand, Karthik, Shweta, Adi & Amresh got it. Well done.
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Johannes Vermeer's Astronomer and Geographer. The object is Camera Obscura, the predecessor to the modern camera
The Astromer
The Geographer
Camera Obscura
A=Johannes Vermeer
B=Aristotle
Vermeer, Leeuvenhoek, Camera Obscura
Nice Q
The artist is Vermeer and the scientist is Antonie van Leeuwenhoek.
Johannes Vermeer's Astronomer and Geographer - both supposed to have been modeled after Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, the supposed inventor of the camera obscura
Vermeer's Astronomer and Geographer with Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek as a possible model. Camera obscura is the device. Both of them were from Delft in NL.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is the model and Johannes Vermeer is the painter
Johannes Vermeer ( painter)
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek( scientist)
----Shweta
Vermeer, the geographer, the astronomer, and van Leeuwenhoek, the inventor of microscope.
A = Johannes Vermeer (artist)
B = Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (
Pic 1 = The Astonomer
Pic 2 = The Geographer
Pic 3 = Camera Obscura, an optical device used by Vermeer to achieve mastery of light.
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