Arts & Culture
The Development of Perspective in Italian Renaissance Painting
Quick fact
Filippo Brunelleschi, a Renaissance architect, demonstrated linear perspective around 1413 with a painted panel of the Florence Baptistery that, when viewed through a small hole, perfectly aligned with the real building across the piazza.
Why this is interesting
Have you ever noticed how a road appears to narrow in the distance until it meets at a point? In the early 1400s, Italian artists figured out how to mimic this effect on a flat canvas, fundamentally changing the course of art.