{"id":1311,"date":"2008-05-14T22:32:58","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T20:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/14\/droste-effect\/"},"modified":"2008-02-16T14:08:58","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T12:08:58","slug":"droste-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/14\/droste-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Droste effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In the year 1956, &#8220;the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher made an unusual lithograph with the title &#8216;Print Gallery&#8217;. It shows a young man viewing a print in an exhibition gallery. Amongst the buildings depicted on the print, he sees paradoxically the very same gallery that he is standing in.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The term was coined by the poet and columnist Nico Scheepmaker at the end of the 1970s. It is named after Droste, a Dutch brand of cocoa, whose box has a picture of a nurse carrying a serving tray with a cup of hot chocolate and a box of the same brand of cocoa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You will find the following image and much more at <a href=\"http:\/\/algebraoflife.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/droste-effect-in-year-1956-dutch.html\">AlgebraOfLife<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/droste_effect.jpg' alt='Droste effect example' \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the year 1956, &#8220;the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher made an unusual lithograph with the title &#8216;Print Gallery&#8217;. It shows a young man viewing a print in an exhibition gallery. Amongst the buildings depicted on the print, he sees paradoxically the very same gallery that he is standing in.&#8221; The term was coined by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[458,457,2266],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-optical-illusion","tag-escher","tag-mc-escher","tag-optical-illusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}