The trident beginning at Palazzo Popolo, the most northern entry to Rome, is the place at which this can be most appreciated. ... This was one of the first urban gardens of the renaissance, providing a venue for Papal theatry. ... This discussion has shown the positive effect that the development of 'renaissance' perspective had on the history of design. ... It seems renaissance thinkers did not account for the movement of the human gaze , nor the distortions due to the convex surface of the eye. ... So, despite the innovations it instigated, perhaps now the renaissance invention of ...

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Hindsight is 20/20; concepts like "the Fall of Rome" or "The Renaissance" were never perceived to exist at the beginning of the period/process -- they were only recognized and articulated (and capitalized) after the fact. ...

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