The Arcades Project - Operi

[Panorama]
Does anyone still want to go with me into a panorama?
-Max Brod, Ub er die Schonheit hiisslicher Bilder
(Leipzig, 1913), p. 59
There were panoramas,l dioramas, cosmoramas, diaphanoramas, navaloramas,
pleoramas (pleD, "I sail," I go by water" ), fantoscope, fantasma-parastases,
phantasmagorical and fantasmaparastatic experiences. picturesque journeys in a
room, georamas; optical picturesques, cineoramas, phanoramas, stereoramas, cycloramas,
panorama dramatique.
"In our time so rich in pano-, cosmo-, neo-, myrio-, kigo- and dio-ramas." M. G.
Saphir, in the Berliner Courim; March 4, 1829; cited in Erich Stenger, Daguerres
Diorama in Bedin (Berlin, 1925), p. 73. [QJ,l]
The postrevolutionary Versailles as waxworks: "The leftover royal statues were
remodeled. That of Louis XIV in the great Salle de l'Orangerie wears a liberty cap
in place of the chiseled-away peruke, carries a pike instead of the official baton;
and so that no one mistakes the identity of the newly created god of war, t.here is
written at the foot of the statue: 'French Mars, protector of the liberty of the
world.' A similar prank was played with Coustou's colossal has-relief, representing
Louis XIV on horseback, in the large gallery of the chateau. The genius of
fame, who descends from the clouds, holds a liberty cap over the hare head of the
king, instead of the laurel wreath of former times." 0 Colportage 0 F. J. L. Meyer,
Fragmente aus Paris im TV. ]ahr der Jranzosischen Repuhlik (Hamburg, 1797),
vol. 2, p. 315. [QJ,2]
On the exhibition of a group of thieves reproduced in wax, which (around 1785)
was put together hy Curtins or some other entrepreneur for the fair in Saint­
Laurent: "Some were chained and clad in rags, while others were almost naked
and lying on straw. It was a fairly graphic rendering. The only portraits that were
likenesses were those of the two or three leaders; but since the gang was large, the
owner had heen obliged to find them some company. I took it foJ.' granted that he
had fashioned these others more or less according to whim, and with this thought
in mind I was rather casually strolling past the swarthy faces-often obscured by