"The Plastic Panorama of Old Lwów" Topic
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Tango01 | 30 Jan 2016 9:15 p.m. PST |
"Hidden from public view, stored in a museum vault in Wroc³aw, Poland is a scale model known as the Plastic Panorama of Old Lwów. The model's title does not quite do it justice. For one thing, the panoramic model is not really plastic. Among the materials used to construct it included lead, sheet copper and fine pasteboard, not exactly what most fine works of art are made from. The model was also more than just a panorama. It was an intimately detailed reconstruction of the city of Lwów (Lviv, Ukraine today) as it looked in the mid-18th century just prior to the end of Polish rule and before the Austrian Habsburg takeover of the city. The three dimensional model was done with exacting historical accuracy, featuring the streets and buildings of Lwów with everything done to a scale of 200:1. The panorama in all its exquisite details was unprecedented. It was both an immaculate snapshot of Baroque Lwów and a reflection of the vision of its creator, Janusz Witwicki, an architect and art historian. Witwicki managed to continue work on the Panorama during some of the 20th century's worst geopolitical upheavals, before he too was consumed by the maelstrom that ended Polish Lwów…"
Main page link Amicalement Armand |
Condotta | 30 Jan 2016 9:21 p.m. PST |
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books2thesky | 30 Jan 2016 10:31 p.m. PST |
Wow!! (or should I say, "Lwow!!") |
Pauls Bods | 31 Jan 2016 3:15 a.m. PST |
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Ligniere | 31 Jan 2016 7:32 a.m. PST |
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paperbattles | 31 Jan 2016 8:46 a.m. PST |
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cavalry47 | 31 Jan 2016 9:21 a.m. PST |
Wow and an amazing story to go with it |
Tango01 | 31 Jan 2016 2:36 p.m. PST |
Happy you enjoyed it guys!. (smile) Amicalement Armand |
thehawk | 06 Feb 2016 7:56 a.m. PST |
There is a Czech paper model book with something similar but much smaller. link |
Tango01 | 06 Feb 2016 10:51 a.m. PST |
Thanks for share!. Amicalement Armand |
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