Kim (Keimpe) Henry Veltman (5 September 1948 – 1 April 2020) was a Dutch/Canadian historian of science and art historian, director of the Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institute (VMMI), consultant and author, known for his contributions in the fields of "linear perspective and the visual dimensions of science and art," new media, culture and society - wikipedia 
Kim H. Veltman. Dutch/Canadian historian of science and art - wikimedia
From 1990 to 1995 he was director of the Perspective Unit of the McLuhan Program at the Faculty of Education of the University of Toronto. In 1998 he moved to Maastricht, where he became director of Maastricht McLuhan Institute. Since 2006 he was Scientific Director of the Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institute. Over the years he has been Visiting Professor at the University of Göttingen in 1983–84; at the University of Siena in 1991; at the Sapienza University of Rome in 1992; at the Università di Roma II in 1995; and at the Carleton University in 1994–96.
Veltman died of COVID-19 in April 2020. The EVA London 2020 Conference proceedings was dedicated to his memory, including a eulogy by his colleague Carl Smith and others.
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Our interest in Vermeer's The Art of Painting was informed entirely from a lecture given while he was visiting professor in Siena in 1991.
Boulder, "The Secrets of Leonardo's Notebooks," The Reynolds Lecture, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, November 1988.