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No clear evidence to disprove optics thesis

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David G. Stork, in his review of the book Optics, Instruments and Painting, 1420–1720: Reflections on the Hockney–Falco Thesis (“Tracing the history of art” Nature 438, 916–917; 200510.1038/438916b) reports the claim that appropriate concave mirrors to project optical images onto a canvas for tracing could not have existed in the fifteenth century. He concludes that the book may “close the door on the Hockney–Falco tracing thesis”.

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