Artspeaking topic
Perspective was not really discovered, it was invented. Did painters before the Renaissance not see the world the way we do? Our eyes always worked the same way, yet for thousands of years humanity could not manage to draw three dimensions on a flat surface. How can a 'way of seeing' be something you learn?
— linear perspective (Brunelleschi, the Renaissance)
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