P3D Florentine painter Jacopo Chimenti

[Peter Homer <P.J.Homer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In digest 3358 Dave Walsh asked

> As an unrelated question, has anyone any sources of information on the
>16th century Florentine painter Jacopo Chimenti
>who did stereoscopic drawings?

Brewster made much of the Chimenti drawings in order to try to prove that
Wheatstone had not invented/discovered stereo drawing but only his own
Scottish photographic society agreed with their president. I have seen the
pair in question reproduced in a stereo monograph (contradiction in terms?)
produced by the UK stereoscopic society  . The effect is slight and
probably accidental it seems to be the result of trying to make an exact
free  hand copy of one from the other. Which is of course impossible and
the the slight differences are responsible for the effect , some of it is
actualy pseudoscopic. While on the subject of early stereo D'Almeida had
projected ananglyph stereo before Ducos Du Huron in about the 1830's and
Rollman was even earlier but I think that may have just been drawings. Du
Hurons inovation was to use two complimentary colours sanwich the pairs
together and use a single lantern. D'Almeida used primary colours and two
lanterns.       P.J.Homer



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