Theatre in Vicenza designed by Palladio. Gives optical illusion of streets stretching far away in the distance when they are only in fact a couple of metres back. If you look at the section you can see how the streets are on an incline on the horizontal. The distance is a lot more impressive in real life than from what can be seen in these pictures, and the actors can actually enter and act from the houses along the street.
Thought it could be relevant to us, in terms of perception of space, optical illusion. Stages have threshold between audience and actors, reality and fiction.
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