Peter Warren wrote:
> 
> Ron Parker wrote in message ...
> >Perspective came along fairly late in the game, so most "old" art
> >doesn't look right.  Da Vinci's "The Last Supper"
> >for
> >example, has zillions of vanishing points.  At least he tried to
> >establish depth, though.
> Wow, honored, as always, to speak to you.
> Zillions?, uh, for sure.
> "At least?", I think he did an ok job, would you disagree?
> 
> Peter Warren

This, funnily enough, is also a matter of perspective. We're judging
DaVinci or whoever from our perspective as late 20th century Western
barbarians. It could well be that the Chinese for instance have an
entirely different opinion about that. There a few centuries ahead of us
in art.

Remco

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