Note: I've replaced the video for one with better quality but (sometimes) slower loading speeds.
I recommend you let it buffer for a few minutes before playing it.

Here is an alternative link that loads much faster but the quality is compromised:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7631514319793202251&hl=en

Moving this video to mauz15's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

*beg

Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter mauz15.

Another great Sift, Mauz. I feel that I need to disagree about the use of a camera obscura contributing to Vermeer's ability to capture the behaviour of light. Certainly it may have contributed to the rigor of his perpective structure, but you can't paint in a camera obscura, it's too dim.

*dead

This video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by kulpims.