It depicts a man in a gallery viewing a print of a seaport, and among the buildings in the seaport is the very gallery in which he is standing. The gallery is physically in the town, the town is artistically in the picture, the picture is mentally in the person.
"Belvedere" depicts a beautiful scene of the Italian countryside and mountains with a viewing platform in the foreground. One of Escher's "impossible buildings", the belvedere is based on a visual paradox, its two levels being placed at an impossible right angle to each other. The bemused chap at its base in fact holds in his hands a structural replica of the paradox, while the poor prisoner bemoans his fate though no one listens.
The above drawing is called Relativity. It has inspired many movie sets including Inception, Labyrinth and Tomb Raider. Despite being a lousy student and receiving no formal math training, Escher used mathematical principals in his drawings to create “impossible structures” that seemed to be going up and down at the same time.
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