Print Gallery

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Print Gallery is a famous lithograph by Dutch artist M. C. Escher that depicts a mind-bending, self-referential cityscape looping into itself in an impossible perspective.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf artwork
lithograph
artist M. C. Escher NERFINISHED
cataloguedIn M. C. Escher’s official catalogue raisonné NERFINISHED
color black and white
countryOfOrigin Netherlands
creator M. C. Escher NERFINISHED
depicts art gallery interior
buildings
cityscape
harbor
self-referential image
genre mathematical art
optical art
hasArtHistoricalSignificance one of M. C. Escher’s most famous prints
hasCharacteristic central blank region
circular composition
recursive composition
self-referential structure
hasEffect droste effect NERFINISHED
impossible perspective
visual paradox
hasScholarlyInterpretation analyzed in mathematical literature for its recursive structure
hasSubject art collector
rooftops
seaside town
ships in harbor
viewer looking at a print in a gallery
hasTheme infinity
paradox
perception
relationship between art and reality
self-reference
inception 1956
influencedBy mathematics
perspective drawing
topology
medium ink on paper
movement Op art NERFINISHED
Surrealism
notableFor influence on mathematical research on the droste effect
use of mathematical concepts in art
originalTitle Prentententoonstelling
originalTitleLanguage Dutch
partOf M. C. Escher’s graphic works
publicationYear 1956
technique lithography
titleLanguage English

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M. C. Escher notableWork Print Gallery
National Gallery of Ireland hasPart Print Gallery