What contributed to the development of perspective in painting?

Answer 1

Early examples of perspective come from China, Egypt, and Greece, where perspective techniques were used such as atmosphere, overlapping, and size differences to show objects and subjects in the foreground and background. At the time this understanding of perspective was primitive, which is why artworks from those areas and time periods still appear flat despite showing things in different planes of the artwork. Perspective mainly took off in the Italian Renaissance, where artists such as Brunelleschi took a systemic, mathematical approach to create perspective in their artwork. It is generally accepted that Brunelleschi was one of the first people to provide a consistent, precise system for artists to replicate and create perspective in their works.