A photo that captures a sweeping landscape in a single frame is what we call a panorama. The word joins two Greek elements: pan, meaning "all" or "whole," and horama, meaning "a sight" or "a view." Literally, it is "a view of everything." Around 1789, the Irish painter Robert Barker unveiled a painting that wrapped a scene in every direction around the inside of a huge circular wall. Standing in the center, a viewer was surrounded by a 360-degree landscape, as if actually standing on the spot — a brand-new kind of spectacle. He named his invention panorama. At first it referred to that particular form of painting, but today it means any wide, sweeping view.