{"id":279,"date":"2011-03-20T12:26:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T19:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2012-10-25T15:45:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:45:20","slug":"perspective-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/perspective-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"Perspective Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_280\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/perspective-trick\/dsc_0307\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-280\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-280\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-280\" title=\"St. Paul's from the north\" src=\"http:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0307-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0307-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0307-95x150.jpg 95w, https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0307.jpg 306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Paul&#39;s from the north<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Walk south down Church St. from 24th and take in the commanding presence of St. Paul&#8217;s towers as you near 29th.\u00a0 Notice that distortion?\u00a0 Churches throughout history were built with one tower as originally designed, and the second later, in a completely new style &#8212; pardonable, given the several hundred years it took to finish the things.<\/p>\n<p>But here, both towers are identical except for size.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t asked anyone at the church yet, but my guess is that Frank Shea, the original architect, took the convention of disparate steeples and, while<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_281\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/perspective-trick\/dsc_0310\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-281\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-281\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-281\" title=\"DSC_0310\" src=\"http:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0310-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0310-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0310-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC_0310.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The towers are identical, except for size.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>matching them in every English Gothic detail, enlarged the north one to create the peculiarly Renaissance illusion of perspective distortion.\u00a0 (Btw, I&#8217;d swear this was the facade used in that Whoopi Goldberg film &#8220;Sister Act&#8221;.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This English Gothic church seems to use the Rennaisance technique of perspective distortion to enhance its presence on Church Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[26,32,33,35,34,15],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-94110-mission-architecture","tag-architecture","tag-church","tag-gothic","tag-perspective","tag-renaissance","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}