I'm happy you got to visit the 19th century! It's a favorite hangout of mine.

I don't spend nearly as much time in it as I do in the twentieth, but it made for an excellent day trip. Especially yesterday.

I went and watched the video of the panorama. How wonderful! I'm sorry I didn't know about this sooner!

Can you take the time with your family tomorrow? Even if you just drive down for an hour or so, I would call it worth the scramble.

I haven't looked into the history of panoramic paintings. They seem an ancestor of movies, especially in the way they were displayed in special theaters, although they should obviously not be appreciated only in relation to what came later. They are astonishing things in their own right.

Agreed. There was some discussion of them in the exhibit: Robert Barker coined the term for his own massive, wraparound, static paintings in the late eighteenth century and the kind that scrolled in front of the audience's eyes came in very soon afterward. I feel like they survived after the advent of movies in the context of stage sets, but not as an individual form of entertainment.

Another famous example is about the Battle of Atlanta, which is on permanent display at the Atlanta Cyclorama. Without having visited either that one or this one, however, I think I would like this one more.

I would definitely rather be on a ship than the Atlanta Campaign.