Altogether these artistic approaches deal with one common goal: to describe precisely what the viewer is seeing at the given moment, and to determine, in theory or representation, to what extent the relationship would change when there was a shift in distance or in the angle of vision. ... The architect Leon Battista Alberti, in 1435, came up with the theoretical and practical skill, which defined the geometrical rules of perspective. ...

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