... wasn't until around 1400 when the Italian Renaissance artist, Filippo Brunelleschi, developed an instinctive understanding of perspective. He did it without the aid of a theory and without even using abstract geometry. However, he did it by using his field of vision and put it on a grid using great accuracy. An example of this is when he cut a small peephole at eye ... ...

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... were followed, all straight lines would appear slightly curved if they were to be one hundred percent accurate. The ancient Greeks knew of this affect, accounting for it in the geometry of their architecture. The reason they never applied perspective to two dimensional painting was apparently because they chose not to disregard the axiom. It is increasingly more difficult for modern ... ...

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