Thanks for the deep dive. I am still regularly mystified about where and when multi-perspectival compositions started happening. There is always another layer to the onion.
I’ve also been to the Uffizi once, but at 17 I was much closer to the “Look it’s the ____ let’s take a selfie” than I’d like to admit, although that would have been about 4 years before the term ‘selfie’ was an option…
I like to think that multi-perspectival composition is the default of art, like ancient Egypt's composite view of figures or scenes. That's found around the world. It's linear perspective that is the outlier.
Thanks for the deep dive. I am still regularly mystified about where and when multi-perspectival compositions started happening. There is always another layer to the onion.
I’ve also been to the Uffizi once, but at 17 I was much closer to the “Look it’s the ____ let’s take a selfie” than I’d like to admit, although that would have been about 4 years before the term ‘selfie’ was an option…
I like to think that multi-perspectival composition is the default of art, like ancient Egypt's composite view of figures or scenes. That's found around the world. It's linear perspective that is the outlier.