Study of Johannes Vermeer's Painting Space

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  • ヨハネス・フェルメールの絵画空間の考察
  • ヨハネス フェルメール ノ カイガ クウカン ノ コウサツ コウズ ケッテイジ ニ オケル カメラ オブスクラ ノ ヤクワリ
  • —Camera Obscura's Role in Deciding on the Painting's Composition—
  • ―構図決定時におけるカメラ・オブスクラの役割―

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The purpose of this paper is to suggest that the 17th century Dutch painter Johnnes Vermeer used camera obscura when drawing his pictures. Vermeer drew landscapes, portraits, and did genre paintings. His genre paintings mainly depict a section of a room in the Netherlands of his day. I analyzed 13 pictures. The perspective and the plan view were drawn on the basis of the tile size of the drawn floor. The elevational view was drawn only as for as it was technically possible to do so. As for the rooms which Vermeer drew, according to the results, it became clear that the proportion and size of tiles and window frames were maintained. This is also the case when canvas size differs. Moreover, if we pay careful attention to the position of a window frame and compare the position of a back wall with this frame, even if the room is the same, the position of this wall will change. With regard to this, the painter may have intentionally added a change. This is one of the results of an art that use a knowledge of perspective. In conclusion, Vermeer used amera obscura in order to determine composition.

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