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The same analysis can be
extended to the late
development of perspective
representation in the history of
art. Not only did pre-
Renaissance artists have the
same problem of escaping from
their own perceptual
constancy, as it were, but they
had few earlier examples of
perspective art and no
photographs to educate them.
The dominance of some artistic
conventions may have also
been a contributing factor. Pre-
Renaissance artists may have
thought about the possibility of
perspective representation but
did little about it. One does find
many early paintings, perhaps
most, in which objects are
rendered with correct
foreshortening and many
paintings in which distant
objects are appropriately
rendered as smaller than near
ones of the same objective size.
Although it is beyond my
knowledge and competence and
beyond the scope of this
chapter to deal with this
historical problem adequately,
I do think that the constancy
explanation must play a role in
it.