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Donnerstag, 1. August 2019

BL Newsletter: The spectacle of the panorama

What was a panorama? Markman Ellis explores the evolution of this immersive form of topographical art. 
 
The panorama was among the most astonishing and popular of visual spectacles from the early 1790s through most of the next century. A panorama was a painting – a very big painting – hung on the inside of a specially built circular building. Viewers paid an entrance fee to see it, entering by way of a tunnel and staircase into the very centre of the circle, where they could see a painting that surrounded them on all sides, around 360 degrees. A fence or barrier prevented viewers from getting close to the massive painting, whose top and base were also obscured from view. Depicting landscapes, city views, and battle scenes, the panorama had a distinctive, unprecedented, and utterly unusual effect: it made the viewer feel like they were really there.  ... [mehr] https://www.bl.uk/picturing-places/articles/the-spectacle-of-the-panorama

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