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• first Panorama by painter Robert Barker in Edinburgh,1788

• 180 degree semi-circular paintings suspended on the inner circumference of rotunda buildings

• viewed by spectators from a central platform

• use of special lighting

• filled the spectator's complete field of vision

• perspective / distortion (due to curved screen)

panorama

18th c.

The beginnings of immersive illusory space

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