... history." It seems as though the secret knowledge that has been possessed by few for centuries has slowly been seeping out. Some great artists of the past have used optics and mirrors to aid themselves within their masterpieces. Nonetheless, it has been understood that our great artistic masters of the past excelled in extraordinary hand-and-eye coordination being capable to render ravishingly accurate anatomies and landscapes through sheer inborn God-given talent.i Few historians, artists and even scientists have dismissed the notion of this succor as the religious belief prevails that artists of the past just knew how to draw. Realist artists in the Romantic era, such as Vermeer and other Dutch contemporaries, have evidently produced unauthentic pieces due to the camera obscura and camera lucida. Thus the accomplishment of perfect likeness and high realism with the lack of creativity and imagination have been proved within several of their works. ...

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