12-31-2017, 01:56 PM
Something I just noticed. The Gorgon face as are many depicted, is stretched out, as if the height x width ratio was altered from usual proportions, and other than to encompass toothy grin, no one knows why. But, there is some anamorphosis going on here, intentional or not. Notice how the gorgon head seems to appear head on in the photo above, even though it is being viewed from acute perspective? Perhaps an apatropaic mechanism? Perhaps unintentional. Yet Greeks knew about perspective distortion, using entasis and lines in temples that worked against fish-eye distortion.
Qui sepeliunt capita sua in terra, deos volantes non videbunt.
--Flavius Flav
