Giant painting of Atlanta battle scene is moving to new site
The painting's vivid scenes of charging soldiers, rearing horses, battle flags and broken bodies stretches the length of a football field, from the back of one end zone to the other one, when it is fully unfurled and on display.
Before the golden age of movies, the panoramas that offered a 360-degree view of battles and other historic events and "are sometimes described as the 3-D IMAX movies of their time," the history center said in announcing this week's move.
The new building will include a viewing platform that rises 12 feet from the gallery floor, giving viewers "the sense of being enveloped by the 360-degree experience," history center officials said.