where is that renaissance painting with those two fellers and a giant fucking random skull on the floor that looks like it was accidentally stretched out in photoshop
THANK YOU
somebody please explain
Someone once told me itâs like that because it was designed to be hung in a stairwell so the skull pops out as you walk past.
âŚI guess it works but you have to be at a pretty sharp angle
There was a whole trend at one point where artists would include something in their paintings (usually a skull, for whatever reason) thatâs super distorted in just the right way so that it looks normal if you hold the painting up to a convex/concave mirror. I have absolutely no idea why. But I think thatâs whatâs going on here.
In case anyoneâs curious, hereâs what it looks like when you walk past it irl:
It does have a 3D effect to it! Itâs pretty neat, guess it would be even more impressive to people from the 14th century.
