Philip Steadman.
PHILIP STEADMAN: JOHANNES VERMEER BIOGRAPHY
VERMEER’S CAMERA: UNCOVERING THE TRUTH BEHIND THE MASTERPIECES
Johannes Vermeer (1632 – 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He is considered one of the greatest painters of the 17th century Dutch Golden Age. In this book Philip Steadman argues that Vermeer used a camera obscura to capture the scenes he painted. As part of his research Steadman built a scale model of the room in which several of Vermeer’s paintings were set.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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After reading architecture at Cambridge University Philip Steadman (born 1942) joined the university’s Centre for Land Use and Built Form Studies. In 1972 he was a visiting research fellow at Princeton University, and moved in 1977 to the Open University. In 1999 he joined University College London as a professor in the Bartlett School of Architecture.
