Puzzle Picture with Four Portraits
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Puzzle Picture with Four Portraits (c.1534) is a woodcut by Erhard Schön.
- "Anamorphic picture-puzzle with the head of King Ferdinand I. c.1531/4"[1]
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- "Jay, “Scopic Regimes of Modernity” 4. ... –4; Finkelstein, Salvador Dalí's Art and Writing 150–152. ... and Erhard Schön's woodcut Puzzle Picture with Four Portraits (c.1534), which shows a panoramic expanse of landscape strewn with small ..."--The Screen in Surrealist Art and Thought - Page 288, Haim Finkelstein - 2017
- "A rotatable mirror on top reflected the image through a lens onto the drawing surface at D. A light trap under the seat provided ... Figure 2.40 shows one of the earliest anamorphic pictures, entitled Vexierbild (puzzle picture). It is a wood engraving produced in about 1532 by Erhard Schön, apupil ofDürer. An anamorphic portrait ... The four surfaces fold to form a triangular room, which appears Figure 2.41."--Perceiving in Depth, Volume 1: Basic Mechanisms - Page 59, Ian P. Howard, Brian J. Rogers - 2012
- "When you close one eye and, with the other, look at the picture from a specific point about an inch from the right edge of the ... However, when we look at this woodcut alternately from left and right at a sharp angle, four portraits emerge from the chaos. ... The angel of the Last Judgment at the left can be read as a warning to Francis. 1 1 Fig. 4 Erhard Schön. Picture puzzle: What Do You See? Erhard Schön."-- --Hidden images: games of perception, anamorphic art, illusion ... Fred Leeman, Joost Elffers, Michael Schuyt - 1976
- "The engraver Erhard Schön was an inspiration to other artists fascinated by such optical puzzles. ... In 1535 he produced a large-scale anamorphic image, a "picture within a picture," that conceals portraits of four great EUropean rulers."--The Museum of Illusions: Optical Tricks in Art - Céline Delavaux - 2013 -
- "The Temptation of St. Anthony, engraving Lent by W. G. Russell Allen, Boston SCHON, Erhard. German painter. draughtsman ... Puzzle picture with four portraits (Vexierbild mit vier Bildnissen), woodcut, c. 1534 Original in The Metropolitan ." --Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism - Page 249, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Alfred H. Barr (Jr.), Georges Hugnet - 1936
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