(anamorphic portrait of Edward VI)
This method - anamorphosis - became popular as a technical particularity that contains ethics of reduction, a strong mechanism of optical illusion and philosophy of virtual reality. It is a rebus, monster, a miracle.
Anamorphoses became in paintings a monstrous projection or the twisted representation of the image on a plane, the image that in spite of this conversion from a certain point of view appears as a regular image with correct proportions. (Diderot et D'Alembert in Encyclopedia, 1751)
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 "Portrait of Edward VI")
