Travelogue: In Delft with Vermeer
By Keith Oatley • Jul 19th, 2010 • Category: Editor's Picks, Essays, Goose Lane Authors, TravelVermeer was interested in science. He seems to have been one of the first painters to use a camera obscura, and he seems also to have been fascinated by the geometry of the perspectives he created. In the domain of painting he seems to me to have been interested in those matters about which Elaine Scarry (1999) wrote in the domain of prose fiction: how the artist invites the reader—or in this case the viewer—not just to glimpse objects, but to construct scenes.
