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28-576: The museum’s collection includes approximately 1,000 works of art that have been donated to or purchased by Hope College. Approximately half of the artworks in the collection come from Europe and the Americas, while the other half come from Asia and Africa. Most of the works in the collection date from 1600 to the present and span a broad range of genres and media, from paintings, sculptures and prints to decorative arts and religious objects. Moreover, this blend of diverse artwork reflects Hope's student profile;

56-735: A vista . Cartographic experiments during the Enlightenment era preceded European panorama painting and contributed to a formative impulse toward panoramic vision and depiction. This novel perspective was quickly conveyed to America by Benjamin Franklin who was present for the first manned balloon flight by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783, and by the American-born physician, John Jeffries who had joined French aeronaut Jean Pierre Blanchard on flights over England and

84-576: A fortune from her father, Mesdag retired from banking at the age of 35 to pursue a career as a painter. He studied in Brussels with Willem Roelofs and in 1868 moved to The Hague to paint the sea. In 1870 he exhibited at the Paris Salon and won the gold medal for The Breakers of the North Sea . In 1880 he received a commission from a Belgian company to paint a panorama giving a view over

112-718: A long career with Exxon, Inc., retiring as Vice President of Corporate Planning. Richard served on the Hope College Board of Trustees and on the Investment Committee. Margaret also studied at Hope, she taught at college level and was known for her love of the arts and theater. Margaret and Richard were early and enthusiastic supporters of the Hope Summer Repertory Theatre. Margaret died in April 2013. Richard and Margaret’s support for

140-583: A vantage point encompassing the entire circle of the horizon, rendering the original scene with high fidelity. The inaugural exhibition, a "View of Edinburgh" (specifically the view from the summit of Calton Hill ), was first shown in that city in 1788, then transported to London in 1789. By 1793, Barker had built "The Panorama" rotunda at the center of London's entertainment district in Leicester Square , where it remained attracting visitors for 70 years, then closing in 1863, before being converted into

168-551: A visually dynamic environment for displaying art. Hendrik Willem Mesdag Hendrik Willem Mesdag ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦɛndrɪk ˈʋɪləm ˈmɛzdɑx] ; 23 February 1831 – 10 July 1915) was a Dutch marine painter . He was born in Groningen , the son of the banker Klaas Mesdag and his wife Johanna Wilhelmina van Giffen. Mesdag was encouraged by his father, an amateur painter, to study art. He married Sina van Houten in 1856, and when they inherited

196-513: Is also purposed for multimedia, cross-scale applications to an outline overview (from a distance) along and across repositories. This so-called "cognitive panorama" is a panoramic view over, and a combination of, cognitive spaces used to capture the larger scale. The device of the panorama existed in painting, particularly in murals , as early as 20 A.D., in those found in Pompeii , as a means of generating an immersive " panoptic " experience of

224-460: Is any wide-angle view or representation of a physical space, whether in painting , drawing , photography , film , seismic images , or 3D modeling . The word was coined in the 18th century by the English ( Irish descent ) painter Robert Barker to describe his panoramic paintings of Edinburgh and London . The motion-picture term panning is derived from panorama . A panoramic view

252-658: Is the Racławice Panorama (1893) located in Wrocław , Poland , which measures 15 × 120 metres. In addition to these historical examples, there have been panoramas painted and installed in modern times; prominent among these is the Velaslavasay Panorama in Los Angeles, California (2004). Panoramic photography soon came to displace painting as the most common method for creating wide views. Not long after

280-559: Is the "oatmeal box", a vertical cylindrical container in which the pinhole is made in one side and the film or photographic paper is wrapped around the inside wall opposite, and extending almost right to the edge of, the pinhole. This generates an egg-shaped image with more than 180° view. Popular in the 1970s and 1980s, but now superseded by digital presentation software, Multi-image (also known as multi-image slide presentations, slide shows or diaporamas) 35mm slide projections onto one or more screens characteristically lent themselves to

308-614: The Netherlands . Donald Battjes '68, former Chief of Operations and Facility Planning at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art , provided additional input on the building’s design and operational features. At the opening gala, he stated that the interior gives "a raw, natural look" in order for the aesthetically pleasing practicality of displaying artwork to be fulfilled. The building comprises approximately 15,000 square feet of total space. The major public spaces of

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336-674: The Panorama Mesdag of The Hague , Netherlands , a cylindrical painting more than 14 metres high and roughly 40 meters in diameter (120 meters in circumference). In the United States of America is the Atlanta Cyclorama , depicting the Civil War Battle of Atlanta . It was first displayed in 1887, and is 42 feet high by 358 feet circumference (13 × 109 metres). Also on a gigantic scale, and still extant,

364-672: The Panoscan allows the capture of high resolution panoramic images and eliminates the need for image stitching , but immersive "spherical" panorama movies (that incorporate a full 180° vertical viewing angle as well as 360° around) must be made by stitching multiple images. Stitching images together can be used to create extremely high resolution gigapixel panoramic images. On rare occasions, 360° panoramic movies have been constructed for specially designed display spaces—typically at theme parks , world's fairs , and museums. Starting in 1955, Disney has created 360° theaters for its parks and

392-530: The Swiss Transport Museum in Lucerne, Switzerland, features a theatre that is a large cylindrical space with an arrangement of screens whose bottom is several metres above the floor. Panoramic systems that are less than 360° around also exist. For example, Cinerama used a very wide curved screen, with three synchronized projectors, and IMAX Dome / OMNIMAX movies are projected on a dome above

420-533: The art society of The Hague (the Pulchri Studio ) and in 1889 was elected chairman. In 1903 he gave his house at Laan van Meerdervoort and his collection of paintings to the Netherlands; the house is now The Mesdag Collection . This article about a Dutch painter is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Panorama A panorama (formed from Greek πᾶν "all" + ὅραμα "view")

448-413: The building features a glass front with 700-pound Cambrian black granite panels sweeping around the sides in a dramatic saw-tooth pattern; according to Stone Ideas, this is an "eye-catcher" not only for its functional practicality, but also for its unique design. The interior of the building features polished concrete floors, segmented walls and open ceilings that complement its modernist exterior and provide

476-485: The church of Notre Dame de France . Inventor Sir Francis Ronalds developed a machine to remove errors in perspective that were created when a sequence of planar sketches was combined into a cylinder. It also projected the cylindrical drawing onto the wall of the rotunda at much larger scale to enable its accurate painting. The apparatus was exhibited at the Royal Polytechnic Institution in

504-493: The college in the fall of 2013, the gift includes over 500 pieces of art and an extensive 7,000 art-related book collection. With about 80 percent of the art objects in the Kamanksy-Wheaton gift coming from Asia, spanning centuries and representing multiple cultures. The Kruizenga Art Museum is named in recognition of a leadership gift from Richard and Margaret Feldmann Kruizenga. Richard who studied at Hope, went on to

532-516: The early 1840s. Large scale installations enhance the illusion for an audience of being surrounded with a real landscape. The Bourbaki Panorama in Lucerne , Switzerland was created by Edouard Castres in 1881. The painting measures about 10 metres in height with a circumference of 112 meters. In the same year of 1881, the Dutch marine painter Hendrik Willem Mesdag created and established

560-474: The first aerial crossing of the English Channel in 1785. In the mid-19th century, panoramic paintings and models became a very popular way to represent landscapes , topographic views and historical events . Audiences of Europe in this period were thrilled by the aspect of illusion, immersed in a winding 360-degree panorama and given the impression of standing in a new environment. The panorama

588-423: The first graduating class of Hope College had 6 students, two of whom were Japanese. While the college has been receiving donations of art, nearly 30 percent of the collection, which includes works by 19th century Dutch artist Hendrik Willem Mesdag and by 20th century Spanish artist Salvador Dalí , are newly acquired pieces. This rapid growth stemmed from a donation by David Kamansky and Gerald Wheaton. Donated to

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616-516: The introduction of the Daguerreotype in 1839, photographers began assembling multiple images of a view into a single wide image. In the late 19th century, flexible film enabled the construction of panoramic cameras using curved film holders and clockwork drives to rotate the lens in an arc and thus scan an image encompassing almost 180 degrees. Pinhole cameras of a variety of constructions can be used to make panoramic images. A popular design

644-608: The museum include two art exhibition galleries, a reception lobby and classroom. In accordance with the wishes of the lead donors, the building was designed to stand out from other buildings on the Hope campus. The distinctive "double lung" shape was partly inspired by the shape of a traditional artist’s palette and is also homage to the Guggenheim Museum in New York, one of the first Modernist museum buildings. The façade of

672-416: The museum reflects their longtime love for art, sparked at Hope College, and developed during their travels and throughout their lives together. Margaret Kruizenga, asked for a building that would be "unusual" among the red-brick buildings on campus during the early design process. The Kruizenga Art Museum building is the creation of Hope alumnus Matthew Vander Borgh '84, and president of C Concept Design in

700-536: The panorama format. A vertical panorama or vertorama is a panorama with an upright orientation instead of a horizontal. It is created using the same techniques as when making a horizontal panorama. Digital photography of the late twentieth century greatly simplified this assembly process, which is now known as image stitching . Such stitched images may even be fashioned into forms of virtual reality movies, using technologies such as QuickTime VR , Flash , Java , or even JavaScript . A rotating line camera such as

728-505: The village of Scheveningen on the North Sea coast near The Hague. With the help of Sina and students he completed the enormous painting, Panorama Mesdag , — 14 m high and 120 m around — by 1881. However, the vogue for panoramas was coming to an end, and when the company operating it went bust in 1886, Mesdag purchased the painting at auction and thereafter funding its operating losses from his own pocket. He joined

756-408: The wide screen panorama. They could run autonomously with silent synchronization pulses to control projector advance and fades, recorded beside an audio voice-over or music track . Precisely overlapping slides placed in slide mounts with soft-edge density masks would merge seamlessly on the screen to create the panorama. Cutting and dissolving between sequential images generated animation effects in

784-460: Was a 360-degree visual medium patented under the title  Apparatus for Exhibiting Pictures by the artist Robert Barker in 1787. The earliest that the word "panorama" appeared in print was on June 11, 1791, in the British newspaper The Morning Chronicle , referring to this visual spectacle. Barker created a painting, shown on a cylindrical surface and viewed from the inside, giving viewers

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