Professor Tantillo mentioned the "Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage ‘Round the World" in class this week. For anyone interested in viewing it, click the link below:
Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage 'Round the World
Showing posts with label panorama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label panorama. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Monday, February 22, 2010
Banvard's Folly
The wikipedia article about John Banvard discusses the popularity of his Mississippi panorama and describes how wealthy he became by exhibiting it here in this country and abroad.
After his European travels he built an enormous mansion on Long Island:
On his return his invested part of the fortune he had made in 60 acres overlooking Cold Spring Harbor on the North Shore of Long Island, where in 1852-55, in competition with P. T. Barnum's palace "Iranistan" in Bridgeport, Connecticut, he proceeded to design and have built a baronial residence from its eastern shore, which, it was given out, was intended to resemble Windsor Castle; he named the place Glenada, the glen of his daughter Ada, but the locals called it "Banvard's Folly".[1] After his death it became a fashionable resort hotel, The Glenada.Anyway. Never too early . . . the wiki article on panoramic painting goes into a fair amount of detail on the Romantics' criticism of such "mass" or "pop" culture. Great topic.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Moving Panoramas
Hi again everyone,
I probably moved through the last fifteen minutes of lecture a bit too quickly this morning. The Wikipedia entry for "moving panorama" is surprisingly well done and helps provide some more background on the popularity of these canvases during the mid-nineteenth century.
At any rate, a great paper topic!
Jim
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