Caravaggio used photographic techniques: researcher 研究者：卡拉瓦喬使用照相般的技術

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Italian Renaissance painter Caravaggio used revolutionary optical instruments to "photograph" his models more than 200 years before the invention of the camera, according to a researcher in Florence.

佛羅倫斯研究者表示，義大利文藝復興時期的畫家卡拉瓦喬使用革命性光學儀器替模特兒「照相」，比照相機的發明時間還早了200年。

The 16th-century artist celebrated for his dramatic chiaroscuro (light and shadow) paintings mastered "a whole set of techniques that are the basis of photography", Roberta Lapucci told AFP.

研究者羅貝塔．拉普契告訴法新社，這位以戲劇性明暗對照技法聞名的16世紀畫家，精通「攝影基礎的一整套技法」。

Caravaggio worked in a "darkroom" and illuminated his models through a hole in the ceiling, said Lapucci, who teaches at the prestigious Studio Art Centers International in the Tuscan capital.

任教於塔斯卡尼首府知名的「國際攝影藝術中心」的拉普契說，卡拉瓦喬在「暗室」內工作，從屋頂的小洞照亮模特兒。

The image was then projected on a canvas using a lens and a mirror, she said.

她說，影像利用透鏡及鏡子投射在畫布上。

Caravaggio "fixed" the image, using light-sensitive substances, for around half an hour during which he used white lead mixed with chemicals and minerals that were visible in the dark to paint the image with broad strokes, Lapucci said.

拉普契說，卡拉瓦喬「固定」影像，是利用感光物質；約半小時的時間，他利用混合化學物及礦物的白鉛，以寬筆觸勾勒影像。這種混合顏料在黑暗中也看得到。