I. Instruments for visual measurement of distance and height
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The pictorial field of vision and the optical devices Academies These paintings hang in the Court Room of the Foundling Hospital, together with views of (...)
Space and Emotions The use of Toponyms in Pride and Prejudice 1. Space and Emotions 2. Places and Spaces 3. (...)
Panorama Norden’s Panorama
Baker’s London Panorama
Girtin’s panorama
Girtin’s panorama - Animations (...)Wide angle The field of vision broadens towards wide angle views.
Paul and Thomas Sandby, View from the (...)Perspective Oblique perspective
Height of spectator viewpoint
Beer Street and Gin Lane
Beer Street (...)Oblique views and shadows Hogarth
The cone of vision
A master’s secrets
Canaletto’s choice of lighting
Light and (...)Depth of field and variations on the viewpoint [#1
The drawing shows the dome of St Paul’s with the horizontal lines in the drum of the (...)Companion pictures To suggest the multiple perspectives of a cityscape , some paintings were planned as pairs (...)
Framing effects Camera obscura
The Thames seen through an Arch of Westminster Bridge
Westminster Bridge (...)
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Culture and the arts Literature Music Science Theatres Painting Clubs and societies
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Literature The cities had a flourishing literary life :
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Music Domestic music
Chamber music
Harpsichord music
Concert life
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Painting Painters and painting Painting the cities The pictorial field of vision and the optical (...)
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Artists’ London The world of art in London The painters’view of LondonLondonCulture
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The world of art in London Painters’ houses are mostly to be found near Leicester Fields and in neighbouring Soho ; some (...)
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The painters’view of London The pictorial field of vision
The art of cityscape combines the selection of a point of view (...)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
