Arts & Culture
How Perspective Systems Create Depth in Renaissance Frescoes
Quick fact
Leon Battista Alberti's 1435 treatise 'De Pictura' codified linear perspective, and Masaccio's 'Trinity' (c. 1427) is considered the first surviving painting to use it accurately.
Why this is interesting
When you stand before a Renaissance fresco, you might feel like you could step into the painted world. How did artists create such convincing depth on a flat wall?