Why do paintings/art from the 18th century and earlier so commonly and casually depict what appears to be different groups of human figures that are radically different in size/proportion?
This is a painting of Piazza San Marco in Venice ๐ฎ๐น by the famous 18th-century Venetian artist Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697โ1768).
Look at the 2 regular-sized men in the middle, next to a comparatively-massive man next to them, more than double their height ๐ง
Maybe the Smithsonian, with their enormous, top-secret hoard of "dinosaur" bones they've been forcibly-collecting since the 1800s has some ideas?
This is a painting of Piazza San Marco in Venice ๐ฎ๐น by the famous 18th-century Venetian artist Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697โ1768).
Look at the 2 regular-sized men in the middle, next to a comparatively-massive man next to them, more than double their height ๐ง
Maybe the Smithsonian, with their enormous, top-secret hoard of "dinosaur" bones they've been forcibly-collecting since the 1800s has some ideas?
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