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View of Venice, also known as the de' Barbari Map, is a monumental woodcut print showing a bird's-eye view of the city of Venice from the southwest. It bears the title and date "VENETIE MD" ("Venice 1500"). It was printed from six wooden blocks designed from 1498 to 1500 by Jacopo de' Barbari, and then published in late 1500 by the Nuremberg ...
Viewing frustum. v. t. e. A bird's-eye view is an elevated view of an object or location from a very steep viewing angle, creating a perspective as if the observer were a bird in flight looking downward. Bird's-eye views can be an aerial photograph, but also a drawing, and are often used in the making of blueprints, floor plans and maps.
Pictorial maps (also known as illustrated maps, panoramic maps, perspective maps, bird's-eye view maps, and geopictorial maps) depict a given territory with a more artistic rather than technical style. [1] It is a type of map in contrast to road map, atlas, or topographic map. The cartography can be a sophisticated 3-D perspective landscape or ...
John Bachmann, Sr. (Jan 31,1817–May 22,1899) was a Swiss-born lithographer and artist best known for his bird's-eye views, especially of New York City. He was a journeyman lithographic artist in Switzerland and Paris until 1847. His first known American print (credited to "C Bachmann" as artist and "J Bachmann" as publisher) appeared in 1848 ...
0-915-38048-X. Crow's Eye View (Korean: 오감도; Hanja: 烏瞰圖) is 15 part poetry anthology written by Korean author Yi Sang. It was published by The Chosun Chungang Ilbo (조선중앙일보; 朝鮮中央日報) between July 24, 1934, and August 8. The anthology was originally planned to contain 30 poems, but only 15 could be published ...
Example of mirror anamorphosis. There are two main types of anamorphosis: perspective (oblique) and mirror ().More complex anamorphoses can be devised using distorted lenses, mirrors, or other optical transformations.
The artist Kazimir Malevich (1878–1935), who wrote extensively on the aesthetics and philosophy of modern art, identified the aerial landscape (especially the "bird's-eye view", looking straight down, as opposed to an oblique angle) as a genuinely new and radicalizing paradigm in the art of the twentieth century.
B. Bird's-eye view. The birds and the bees. Birds of a feather flock together. Black swan problem. Black swan theory. Bluebird of happiness.