But there’s no indication he knew the artist in life. Van Leeuwenhoek, a minor public official in Delft, was appointed executor of Vermeer’s estate after the painter’s death in 1675, a task he performed for a fixed fee as a perquisite of office. But what Van Leeuwenhoek and Vermeer seem never to have perceived, remarkably, was each other. Snyder recounts in “Eye of the Beholder,” an engaging and richly detailed work of interdisciplinary history, each of these visionaries honed his powers of observation by tinkering with optical lenses, a pastime then at the forefront of scientific progress. His neighbor, the painter Johannes Vermeer (1632-75) created some of the most highly praised works in the history of art, including the “Girl With a Pearl Earring” (ca. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), a microscopist, initiated the discipline we now call microbiology when he discovered hitherto unseen organisms-protozoa and paramecia-in a sample of ordinary drinking water.
In the 17th century, two men of genius resided within a stone’s throw of each other in the picturesque Dutch town of Delft. While she deals with the doctors and nurses in the hospital, we see her head wrapped completely in bandages.Details from ‘The Geographer’ (1668-9) and ‘The Art of Painting’ (1666-8) by Johannes Vermeer.
The episode recounted the recovery of a woman named Janet Tyler after a series of medical procedures attempting to fix a face that has apparently been completely deformed.
In fact, it was one of the best, and most memorable, twist endings in the show’s history. But unlike “Hillbillies,” where her good looks were used as a punch line, here they became part of a ghoulish twist. The episode aired in 1960, years before “The Beverly Hillbillies” in 1962. It was her first, but not her only, trip to “The Twilight Zone.”ĭouglas appeared for just a few minutes in the final moments of the second season episode, “The Eye of the Beholder,” written by series creator Rod Serling. Donna Douglas, who died Thursday, found lasting fame in her role as Elly May Clampett on the CBS sitcom “The Beverly Hillbillies.” But it was a small role she had two years before that has arguably had a more lasting impact.
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