antiquity and later. “The simple spatial patterns which appear 
for the first time upon the delicate, curved surfaces of antique 
vases seem to echo no elaborate theoretical construction. In 
themselves they call for no inquiry as to the nature of 
perspective systems which, if they existed, find no echo in 
surviving work.” (p. 270)

The Greek point of view in both art and chronology has little in 
common with ours but was much like that of the Middle Ages. 

*     White’s view is that although some attributes of perspective 
occur in antiquity, there was not much interest in them as 
such. In the Renaissance it became recognized technique that 
perspective called for a fixed  point of view. Such a stress on 
private stance, while common to a print culture, simply did not 
concern a manuscript culture. The dynamics of individualism