Let’s go back to the period when the Camera Obscura was a magical aid for painters. Let’s go back to the late Renaissance and Baroque. 

When we look at the paintings with masses of people and animals, we do not realize that these were considered the plus ultra. It is only logical, if you think that those scenes could not be performed in front of a Camera Obscura.

Here is one of the last treasures Anna Marcone ‘gave’ me (click on her name to know more about her, I will dedicate a blog about her soon). She passed away just over a year ago. Maybe that is why I have been thinking much about her these days...

Thanks to her I saw the fresco on the ceiling of palazzo Barberini by Pietro da Cortona… I laid there on a couch for I don’t know how long looking up… To think this painting was made by painters laying on their backs painting in the wet stucco…

Another example? Here is a documentary about how Michelangelo worked. Click on his name to see it. No wonder he was not too happy about painting the ceiling of the Sistine chapel.

With the means we have now, practically all is possible. And even moving!

Ok, you need some money and a crew. But then artists had quite a crew as well. Me, I work alone… Don't expect from me stuff like the video below...