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パノラマ館 / 1787–1900s / Style / Exhibition Design
The 19th-century immersion machine: a giant painting around the full inner wall of a rotunda with the audience at its center. Lighting and real foregrounds erased the picture's edge — mass visual entertainment's peak before cinema.
A 360-degree painting / The central viewing platform / Foregrounds that erase the boundary / Controlled natural light
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Robert Barker's 1787 patent / Mesdag's The Hague / its return in immersive digital exhibitions