Optical illusion Salai / Leonardo’s sketch of Salai
The reason why the optical illusion/mirror image appears slightly distorted is that judging by the contemporary sketch of Salai above, is the poor boy was clearly born with a fat head.
The reason why the optical illusion/mirror image appears slightly distorted is that judging by the contemporary sketch of Salai above, is the poor boy was clearly born with a fat head.
On reading this blog from the bottom up we arrive at these four images. (Fig.1) The two on the right, the actual renaissance images versus the two images on the left being the image upside down a la Camera Obscura with a mirror placed at 90 degrees and a candle light coming in from the right … Read more
On a conveniently dark and stormy morning I want to tell you a story in two timelines with hopefully the same conclusion. It begins for me on January 28 th of this year and supporters of Just Stop Oil throwing soup over the Mona Lisa in the Louvre in Paris. As an artist who loves … Read more