1) The document discusses several Dutch Golden Age painters such as Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer. 2) It explains how Vermeer likely used a camera obscura to help him compose his realistic paintings by tracing inverted images projected on a wall. 3) The document also provides examples of Rembrandt's use of chiaroscuro and discusses how Vermeer helped popularize "genre paintings" that depicted everyday scenes.

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7. Richard Torchia is a Philadelphia based installation artist who uses the camera obscura to create works of art that are projections on walls/floors/cargo containers/toilets etc...I saw a show of his at the Eastern State Penitentiary (below left) where he affixed lenses into the ceiling and made entire cells into illuminated rooms. It’s pretty darn sweet to look down and watch clouds and the occasional airplane moving across the floor. Shown here is a cell illuminated with the projections of the weeds on top of the prisons’ roof and sky. I don’t know where the other one is from, but it’s obviously projecting an outdoor scene into a gallery space.