Rembrandt may have traced his celebrated self-portraits from optical projections created by assemblies of mirrors or lenses, a new analysis suggests.
Francis O'Neill and Sofia Palazzo Corner have identified several arrangements of a flat and curved mirror, or a flat mirror and a lens, which they say can recreate the perspectives, proportions and lighting seen in the self-portraits of the famed 17th-century Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn.
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Nonsense... Just because Hockney isn't capable of painting a realistic portrait even if his life depended on it, he automatically assumes that others can't.
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