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• the Slav Epic cycle of paintings by Alfons Mucha consists of 20 canvases, up to six metres tall and eight metres wide?
• a Carley float was a liferaft fashioned from a large ring of copper tubing surrounded by cork and canvas?
• Swiss photographer Balthasar Burkhard, noted for his large-format photographs, invented a technique to expose his works directly onto the canvas?
• panel painting was the primary painting medium used in the West, from about the 13th to the 16th century, before canvas and oil paint became the norm?
• 19th-century Myriorama and moving panorama shows entertained audiences with stories of travel, adventure, and historic events scrolling past on huge rolls of painted canvas? (pictured: myriorama poster)