Many of the 1830s magazines I peruse include reviews of recently installed panoramas (please scroll down for the review about Niagara Falls). The moving panorama is also a large painting, but where the panorama requires the viewer to move around a room, the moving panorama is an early "moving picture." Using spools, it scrolls across a stage, creating the illusion of traveling along a scenic route.
Before photography and movies, both the still and the moving paintings offered Londoners as well as Americans views of distant locales. Since the Londoners seem to have been especially curious about the U.S. and its wildernesses, I’m sure they would have enjoyed John J. Egan’s “Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley”—all 348 feet of it, and a very rare survivor.
Video: John J. Egan's "Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley"
Credits Animation: Paul Caro Photography: Saint Louis Art Museum © 2015 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image is a still from the video.
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5 comments:
Wow, thank you for sharing this. I knew there were mounds/villages but I had no idea how many there had been.
This was so intersting - my question is about how much is real. The colossus in the river and in the rock,...
If you click on the title to the video, you can find a detailed description on YouTube. The description calls it an "interpretation," based on archaeological information. I haven't been able to find more details about the painting. That demands more research than I can spare time for. But you might want to try the St. Louis Art Museum or check the Met site, where there could be material I missed. To me it appears to be a combination of what's actually there plus what apparently was there much earlier. Good question. I'm sorry I don't know the full answer.
I meant, what was actually there about 1850...
Nice video. Sharing with you panorama of Florence in Youtube at https://youtu.be/pg1apQjPrkY
Read also article in http://stenote.blogspot.com/2018/01/florence-view-from-piazzale-michelangelo.html
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