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Did Vermeer use a camera to create his paintings
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The flawless perspective of Dutch golden age paintings wasn't just raw talent, it was essentially seventeenth-century tracing paper. Scholars heavily suspect Vermeer used a camera obscura to project live images onto his canvas, meaning one of the greatest painters was basically just executing high-end paint-by-numbers.
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