A legacy . . .

To leave a legacy for future generations.

Today we celebrate the birth of Bernardo Bellotto (January 30, 1720 – October 17, 1780), a famous vedutista.  Bernardo Bellotto's paintings of Warsaw are so topographically accurate that more than a century later they were used as drafts for rebuilding the city after its devastation in the Second World War (that was a legacy for Warsaw).

Do you think Bernardo Bellotto may have used the camera obscura in order to achieve the superior precision of urban views in his painting?  The role of the camera obscura, sometimes referred to as The Magic Mirror of Life, has always fascinated me.  There is a theory that a type of camera obscura technique was used in the early cave drawings.  The camera obscura is still in use today, check out Charles Schwartz's photographs.