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Art, Optics and History: New Light on the Hockney Thesis
- Leonardo
- The MIT Press
- Volume 36, Number 4, August 2003
- pp. 295-301
- Article
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David Hockney's recent book Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters argues that 15th century painters employed optical devices to achieve realistic portraiture. A reexamination of the history of optical projection techniques raises problems for Hockney's provocative hypothesis.