Vermeer and the Camera Obscura. 
Girl with a Pearl Earring.
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The Camera Obscura is an ancient optical device. In its most basic form, it is simply a darkroom with a small hole in a wall. On the wall opposite the hole, an image is formed of what is outside, rendering the image 'upside down'.
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For more than 100 years, it has been suggested that the great 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Reyniersz. Vermeer (also known as Jan van der Meer of Delft, Netherlands) used the camera obscura as a tool for painting. The camera obscura was the forerunner of the photo camera, but without the light-sensitive film or plate.
                                
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