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Perspective, assisting visualising the real, Piero della Francesca Ideal City, c 1470.
Furthermore, as painting was one of the only methods to create and publish realistic representation before the invention of the photograph, skills to do this had to be developed by artists. Perspective was one of those skills, “it best expressed the ‘natural’ experience of sight valorised by the scientific world view”. Jay (1988, p4).
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Perspective, assisting visualising the real, Piero della Francesca Ideal City, c 1470.
Furthermore, as painting was one of the only methods to create and publish realistic representation before the invention of the photograph, skills to do this had to be developed by artists. Perspective was one of those skills, “it best expressed the ‘natural’ experience of sight valorised by the scientific world view”. Jay (1988, p4).
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piero_della_Francesca_Ide...