article_snippet.sent: Draped in a black cloth, Vermeer spent hours peering into the box-like interior of a camera obscura, an ancestor of the photographic camera.
article_snippet.sent: This was a light-tight wooden chamber with a hole or lens on one side, which could be used to project an image of a scene on to a glass plate or wall.
article_snippet.sent: a light-tight wooden chamber with a hole or lens on one side, which could be used to project an image of a scene on to a glass plate or wall had been used for party tricks and for viewing solar eclipses but were increasingly being employed by artists to render paintings more lifelike than ever.
article_snippet.sent: The experiments of a light-tight wooden chamber with a hole or lens on one side, which could be used to project an image of a scene on to a glass plate or wall are the subject of Laura J. Snyder’s new biography.
highlights_snippet.sent: Vermeer spent hours peering into the box-like interior of a camera obscura .
  