Flemish baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens baroque
Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660 Self-portrait
Velasquez 1650
Las Meninas Diego Velazquez
Rembrandt 1634 Rembrandt VAN RIJN Amsterdam
Rembrandt Return of the Prodigal Son 1636
Dutch Still Life Jan Davidsz. de Heem ( /4)
Dutch, 1620
"Windmill at Wijk- bij-Duurstede". Jacob van Ruisdael Dutch 1670
“Girl with Pearl Earring” Johannes Vermeer Delft
Vermeer Lady and Gentleman Drinking Wine (1660)
Vermeer View of Delft, Netherlands, after the Fire
The Little Street Vermeer
Vermeer Woman Holding a Balance
Johannes Vermeer Girl Interrupted at Her Music c. 1660
The Painter and his Model as Klio
Vermeer The Geographer
The Astronomer Vermeer Is this Leeuwenhook?
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (Dutch ) Discovered bacteria protistsprotists, sperm cells blood cells rotifers Leeuwenhoek is known to have made over 500 "microscopes"
Antony van Leeuwenhoek ( )... my work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof. Letter of June 12, 1716
Vermeer Girl with red hat (in NGA)
The eye and the camera obscura video I say that if the front of a building—or any open piazza or field—which is illuminated by the sun has a dwelling opposite to it, and if, in the front which does not face the sun, you make a small round hole, all the illuminated objects will project their images through that hole and be visible inside the dwelling on the opposite wall which may be made white; and there, in fact, they will be upside down. Leonardo
Camera obscura video
Detail from paintingImage seen with camera obscura From NGA website: Although the camera obscura creates no lasting record, it intensifies colors and dramatically differentiates depth of field. It also produces optical effects not normally visible, such as diffused circular highlights caused by bright light reflecting off shiny surfaces.