Perceiving Images: The Separate Realities of Scientists and Art Historians
Charles M. Falco presents evidence showing that lenses and concave mirrors were used by European artists nearly 200 years earlier than previously thought, providing an explanation for the sudden emergence of realism in the works of van Eyck, Campin, van der Weyden, and other early 15th-century portrait artists. Falco is a professor of optical sciences at the University of Arizona and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. His findings grew out of collaboration with the artist David Hockney, and have attracted widespread media coverage, including an hour-long BBC special and a segment on CBS’s 60 Minutes.
Presenter(s): Charles M. Falco
Date: November 16, 2007
Location: Fulton 117
Sponsor(s): Department of Psychology; Department of Computer Science; Department of Physics; Fine Arts Department
URL: http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/falco/
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