Tim's Vermeer (2013)

Name: Tim's Vermeer
Released: 2013
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Tim Jenison, Penn Jillette, Martin Mull, Teller, Philip Steadman

• Movies, Documentary

• 80 min

7.2

Directed by: Teller
Casting: Tim Jenison, Penn Jillette, Martin Mull, Teller, Philip Steadman, David Hockney, Colin Blakemore
Countries: United States of America
Premiere: 2013-12-06
Status: Released

Tags: art collector, experiment, inventor, painting, investigator, art, art history, curious, art restoration, fine art, art detective, optical, expert opinion, dutch painter, oil painting, pinhole camera, johannes vermeer

Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically 150 years before the invention of photography? Spanning a decade, Jenison's adventure takes him to Holland, on a pilgrimage to the North coast of Yorkshire to meet artista David Hockney, and eventually even to Buckingham Palace. The epic research project Jenison embarques on is as extraordinary as what he discovers.