🪄 A small touch. Tree shadows will now 'render' in pseudo-3D space so they are casted onto walls and objects. But only when you cant see inside the buildings
Tortoise over the Venetian Lagoon, Melchior Lorck, 1555.
According to the commentary from the British Museum, where the drawing is housed, the tortoise's shell and the walled city share the same 'armored' appearance. The shell's plates and the stones of the city walls are bound together by the same black charcoal and white highlights. The animal and the city share a common language of defense, weight, and resilience.
Researcher Mara Wade associates this composition with a widely known Renaissance motto: festina lente -'make haste slowly.'
The slow advance of the tortoise, the sturdiness of its shell, and the bustling port city of Venice below...