There is a thread in popular culture that takes an alternative view of the great Dutch painter, Vermeer,

and it's a thread in which his incredibly photorealistic skills came not from an artist's talent,

but from optical mechanical aids in the form of a camera obscura.

Whole books have been written making this unevidence claim.

What does our skeptical eye tell us when we point it through the lens of the camera

and at the work of the great Dutch master?

Vermeer and the camera obscura is up next on Skeptoid.

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Vermeer and the camera obscura.

There is a trend in popular culture to take a snippet from our history,

adorn it with a false gilding of sensational mythology,

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