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From charliemc@prodigy.net:
Great stuff. 

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From pan@syix.com:
Chiaroscuro is the Italianate form of the technique you mention as
clair-obscur. I would have thought more entrants this round would have
been aware of this and used it in their entries.



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From mar@physics.usyd.edu.au:
Nice cloth draping model - your program is very effective. Nicely detailed and
dirty on the left, appropriately clean on the right. I would have cropped quite
a
bit off the top of the image though - a lot of empty ceiling up there.

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From hgregory3@aol.com:
Concept - A nice contrast between the portrait of the Mona Lisa and the more
contemporary metal ball on the checkered floor.

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From steve@neurotrain.com:
A 19 T 19 C 18
A beautiful picture!  I like the simplicity of the cg image, 
it contrasts well with old style studio,.
The lost of points are sadly because of the strange 
texture used on the walls.  In light it looks fine, but in the 
shadow of the armoire it looks unusal and does distract 
slightly. I found the studio rather uncluttered.

Technically - I took points away for the back wall texture 
and the armoire - which compared to perfect objects in 
the foreground are even more rough looking.
I gave a couple of bonus points for the perfect dropcloth 
and computer tower- absolutely realistic - as are the 
components on the white table.

very very good concept, but I think a near finished 
painting would have made the image that much clearer.

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From StephenF@whoever.com:
I like the concept a lot (although I have to say I can't 
see Da Vinci doing a sphere and checkered floor scene, 
even with a computer).  Nice job on the computer and 
the cloth draped over it.  Lighting is very effective, and 
the scene overall is very nice.

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From gmccarter@hotmail.com:
Good modeling and exceptionally good lighting.  But I really don't like your
choice of aspect ratio.  It emphasizes the ceiling and cuts off some of the
main objects in the scene.  I think a normal "square" image format would
work much better here.

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From hfventer@ing.sun.ac.za:
Love the way you used the new and the old on more 
than one level.