There is an intriguing article in this month's Vanity Fair about an inventor in Texas who become obsessed with Vermeer's paintings. Check out the article Vermeer's Secret Tool
Tim Jenison, a creator of hardware and software for video production, used his ingenuity to look at the paintings in an entirely new way. NPR also has an interview with Penn and Gillette, the makers of the documentary "Tims Vermeer" about how Jenison went about making his own version of Vermeer's "The Music Lesson". teller-breaks-his-silence-to-talk-tims-vermeer
