Liquid crystal panel and liquid crystal display

A liquid crystal panel, comprising:

• a liquid crystal cell comprising a liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal molecule that is oriented in homogeneous alignment when no electric field is applied thereto;
• a first polarizer placed on one side of the liquid crystal cell;
• a second polarizer placed on another side of the liquid crystal cell;
• a first anisotropic optical element placed between the liquid crystal cell and the first polarizer and satisfying nx1>ny1>nz1;
• and
• a second anisotropic optical element placed between the first anisotropic optical element and the liquid crystal cell and satisfying nz2>nx2>ny2, wherein:
• the slow axis of the first anisotropic optical element is parallel to the slow axis of the second anisotropic optical element, and
• nx1 and nx2 represent the refractive indices of the first and second anisotropic optical elements in in-plane slow axis directions thereof, respectively, ny1 and ny2 represent the refractive indices of the first and second anisotropic optical elements in in-plane fast axis directions, respectively, and nz1 and nz2 represent the refractive indices of the first and second anisotropic optical elements in their thickness directions thereof, respectively.