History & The Arts
Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view
...public embraced the magic of the panorama - a clamour which owed a lot to the popularity of hot air ballooning...Until the late eighteenth century, the predominant mode of landscape representation was the bird’s-eye view. This type of image offered the onlooker a high viewpoint outside the subject depicted within the frame of representation, whether a city, a coastline,...
