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• Aerial View.  A perspective from above, as seen from a height; bird's eye view. An aerial view can include a great amount of detail in a relative small space, as a map would. The concept of aerial perspective was identified and named by Leonardo da Vinci. He reasoned how this would appear to the human eye (and who also stated distant colors were lighter in hue from this perspective). For much of the history of art, artists did not have the advantage of sighting from the air. While artists in Paris were the first to go up in balloons to make sketches, early aerial views before this time were a representative view (more imagined than actual).
  Drawings of Paris streets and buildings (by artists in balloons, particularly
  Montgolfier brothers' balloons beginning in 1783) were popular. Aerial views were mandatory for fairgoers for every world's fair since London's Crystal Palace in 1851, it gave viewers a quick overview before arriving on the fairgrounds. Aerial views have appeared on medals since 1766 when Swiss engraver Jonas Thiebaud engraved the buildings of the former Benedictine Abbey of Ottobeuren in aerial view. In addition to cities, churches and expositions, medals have also displayed aerial views of forts, and – of all things! – prisons.  See perspective.
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  E3 {1902-30} Forrer 6:63 (illus: Abbey of Ottoberure Medal).

  excerpted with permission from

  An Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology

  For Artists, Makers, Collectors and Curators

  COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY D. WAYNE JOHNSON

  Roger W. Burdette, Editor

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