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David,
There is nothing more substantial than speculation connecting camera obscuras with Vermeer. There are no such "reports," but only conjecture proposed by people who were not born until Vermeer had been dead for nearly three hundred years, i.e., speculation and nothing more. His studio inventory does not mention any such device, nor does a single contemporary account. Furthermore, the perspective vanishing points in his paintings have pinholes in them, indicating his method of working out the perspective using pins and strings, which he would not have had to do if he were tracing projected images. Whereas many painters who use projectors love to point to the speculation over Vermeer's alleged use of a camera obscura as if it were fact, to justify their own use of projectors, there is not sufficient evidence to establish any factual basis for those contentions.
Virgil Elliott
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