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  2. 50 of the World's Most Breathtaking Views - AOL

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    Venice, Italy Peering out from the top of the 325-foot bell tower of St. Mark's Basilica affords visitors a breathtaking view of Venice's domes, red roofs, twisting alleys, and iconic canals with ...

  3. Overview effect - Wikipedia

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    Gallagher et al. (2015) defined a set of consensus categories for awe that included being captured by the view or drawn to the phenomenon, experiences of elation, desiring more of the experience, feeling overwhelmed, and scale effects – feelings of the vastness of the universe or of one's own smallness when faced with that vastness. [4]

  4. World landscape - Wikipedia

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    The world landscape, a translation of the German Weltlandschaft, is a type of composition in Western painting showing an imaginary panoramic landscape seen from an elevated viewpoint that includes mountains and lowlands, water, and buildings. The subject of each painting is usually a Biblical or historical narrative, but the figures comprising ...

  5. A View of the World - Wikipedia

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    A View of the World can refer to View of the World from 9th Avenue , an iconic cartoon by Saul Steinberg A View of the World , selected travel writings by Norman Lewis

  6. Romantic-era panoramas - Wikipedia

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    Such breathtaking sights immediately link panoramas with Romanticism, which is known for its reverence toward the sublime. Despite this similarity, the poet William Wordsworth has long been characterized as an opponent of the panorama, most notably for his allusion to it in Book Seven of The Prelude . [ 4 ]

  7. Robert Barker (painter) - Wikipedia

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    This six-piece set of engravings show a 360-degree view of the city of Edinburgh from a standing position on Calton Hill. In 1793, Barker moved his panoramas to the first purpose-built panorama building in the world, designed by Robert Mitchell [3] and built in Leicester Square, and made a fortune. Viewers flocked to pay 3 shillings to stand on ...

  8. John Lawson Stoddard - Wikipedia

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    John Lawson Stoddard (April 24, 1850 – June 5, 1931) was an American lecturer, author and photographer. [1] [2] He was a pioneer in the use of the stereopticon or magic lantern, adding photographs to his popular lectures about his travels around the world. [2]

  9. Panoramic painting - Wikipedia

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    Panoramic paintings are massive artworks that reveal a wide, all-encompassing view of a particular subject, often a landscape, military battle, or historical event.They became especially popular in the 19th century in Europe and the United States, inciting opposition from some writers of Romantic poetry.