Check out this cross-section of a standard panorama. The cupola overhead prevents the viewer from seeing the border of the painting on top, the artificial floor conceals the border on bottom.
Fancier panoramas used projection, meaning massive amounts of Victorian mechanicalness and gas flames and roaring motors, and all in all were less like a tranquil view of the countryside and more like an awesome way to get conflagrated.I am wondering about the Allegory of the Cave. For half a century, a significant chunk of the population has been first introduced to Plato through the Chronicles of Narnia. I'm sure this affects interpretation - the Cave and the Shadowlands are synonymous for me. There's no real conclusion to be drawn here, but I just think it's fascinating that C.S. Lewis gets to be the gatekeeper of Plato.
Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools?
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ReplyDeleteatlanta has one of these, depicting of course the battle of atlanta. it is epic--and i have most certainly been there. it is the size of 4+ football fields and has props etc at the bottom to make the painting (done in the 1870s) come alive.
ReplyDeletethere is also the one at the salem witch music, which i have also been to. however, that one is not nearly as impressive.