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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