Rossano, Calabria 1931

"Rossano, Calabria" (1931) is a woodcut by M.C. Escher, known for his impossible structures and explorations of perspective. This artwork depicts a stylized mountain range, with the foreground drawn in black, against which an intricate web of white lines representing the landscape stretches toward the horizon. The effect is one of depth and distance, achieved through the use of parallel lines. Escher was fascinated by the ways in which human perception could be manipulated by the illusion of space, as exemplified by the vanishing point perspective in this work.