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panorama
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synonyms: kaiserpanorama, fotoplastikon ???
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Definition:kaiserpanorama:a cylindrical wooden structure with multiple viewfinders, through which people can view illuminated stereoscopic photographs.The Atlas Obscura Page-a-Day Calendar, entry for Tuesday, July 3, 2018---In the mid-19th century, panoramic paintings and models became a very popular way to represent landscapes, topographic views and historical events. Audiences of Europe in this period were thrilled by the aspect of illusion, immersed in a winding 360 degree panorama and given the impression of standing in a new environment. The panorama was a 360-degree visual medium patented under the title Apparatus for Exhibiting Pictures by the artist Robert Barker in 1787. The earliest that the word "panorama" appeared in print was on June 11, 1791 in the British newspaper The Morning Chronicle, referring to this visual spectacle. Barker created a painting, shown on a cylindrical surface and viewed from the inside, giving viewers a vantage point encompassing the entire circle of the horizon, rendering the original scene with high fidelity. The inaugural exhibition, a "View of Edinburgh", was first shown in that city in 1788, then transported to London in 1789. By 1793, Barker had built "The Panorama" rotunda at the center of London's entertainment district in Leicester Square, where it remained until closed in 1863.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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with sullen anger that I aimed blows at the trees of Roussainville wood, from among which no more living creatures made their appearance than if they had been trees painted on the stretched canvas background of a panorama, when, unable to resign myself to having to return home without having held in my arms the woman I so greatly desired,
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
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one scans that horizon where, by a device the opposite of that employed in those panoramas beneath whose domed roofs the wax figures in the foreground impart to the painted canvas beyond them the illusory appearance of depth and mass,
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 3]
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we saw a Panorama and some other sites, and took a walk through the Museum,
Charles Dickens. David Copperfiel
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