"The laws of perspective, which were first elaborated in mid-fifteenth-century Florence by Brunelleschi and Alberti, came to govern the language of visual representation for over four centuries, until transcended by modernism. This language, by conceiving the world from the point of view of an individual eye, promoted the individualism also assumed by the rational subject of Descartes' famous Cargio ergo sum. The result was a new kind of individual artistic subjectivity, which radically re-educated the sensibilities of the new generations." P. 50
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