Potemkin Stairs - Odessa Wood Print

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The Potemkin Stairs is a giant stairway in Odessa, Ukraine. The stairs are considered a formal entrance into the city from the direction of the sea and are the best known symbol of Odessa.
Officially known today as the Primorsky Stairs,they were originally known as the Boulevard steps, the Giant Staircase, or the Richelieu steps.

The top step is 12.5 metres (41 ft) wide, and the lowest step is 21.7 metres (70.8 ft) wide. The staircase is 27 metres (88.5 ft) high, and extends for 142 metres (465.9 ft), but it gives the illusion of greater length.

The stairs were designed to create an optical illusion. A person looking down the stairs sees only the landings, and the steps are invisible, but a person looking up sees only steps, and the landings are invisible. A secondary illusion creates false perspective since the stairs are wider at the bottom than at the top. Looking up the stairs makes them seem longer than they are and looking do...

All Artwork is Registered and Orginal Artwork of Christiane Schulze. All rights Reserved and Copyrighted to Christiane W. Schulze and protected by US and International Copyright Law. Copying and/or distributing these images without my permission is strictly prohibited. PLEASE NOTICE: THE WATERMARK WILL NOT APPEAR ON PRINTS Christiane W. Schulze was born in Dortmund / Germany From 2003 - 2007 she studied Art. Since 2007 she took the Master Class of Prof Qi Yan (Professor of Art in Bejing / China and Düsseldorf / Germany) Exhibition: Gallery Artodrom Berlin 2011 Art Beijing April 2012 Sparkasse Castrop-Rauxel 25.10.12-06.12.12 Physiotherapy Practice Schueller&Kivelitz August 2017 Gallery Arto Mondo Castrop - Rauxel July...

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