One might almost think that, pleased with his new knowledge, he had multiplied the number of objects on the shelves so as to show how well he could foreshorten them.

Medieval painters had not troubled about perspective, and were more concerned, as we have seen, to make a pretty pattern of shapes and colours for their pictures.

The Van Eycks, as we noted, only acquired the beginnings of an understanding of it, and were very proud of their new knowledge.

It was in Italy that all the rules were at last brought to light.
The Renaissance Period in Italy may be considered as lasting from 1400 to 1550.

The pioneer artists who mastered perspective and worked at the human figure till they could draw it correctly in any attitude, lived in the first seventy-five years of the fifteenth century.