... these features because they do in fact make the picture seem impressive. (Especially to people with little or no knowledge of what a typical Great Hall would have been like.) The perspective of the painting makes the Hall look significantly bigger than it appears in reality, and the people in the painting are made to seem quite small up to the Hall and again making it look bigger, to make it more impressive. These are exaggerated features, which is similar to being biased which makes Lapper slightly unreliable in that respect. Some of these features were not at the site - the people, the tables and food, the flags hanging from wall, the floor, the roof, most of the top quarter of the wall and the glass in the windows. But Lapper's actual structuring of the building is quite accurate (which I personally witnessed at the site). At the site there ...

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