Edgerton (1991, p. 24)
"The rules of mathematical perspective were only (!) discovered toward 400 BC by Apollodoros of Athens, at the same time as the use of shadows to suggest plasticity came into use."
Picard (1968, p. 24)
"In order to find an ancient composition in which people move within a limitless landscape treated according to the rules of perspective, it is necessary to wait until the middle of the first century BC. The Odyssey Landscapes, discovered in a house on the Esquiine, are the best examples of this type . . . In all likelihood, they are copies of Alexandrian works, the originals of which predate them by a century.
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