Indeed, in Renaissance times, most of the aforementioned social spaces did not yet exist. Linear perspective appears to give us something more real and natural. Some members of the class suggested that Medieval art somehow reflected Medieval life better than perspectival art might have, and ditto for Renaissance, perspectival art reflecting its own age. Think about linear perspective as an illusion . It creates the effect of depth and order.
Linear perspective depends upon a rudimentary geometric grid laid out over nature.
Certainly think of geographical exploration and map-making. Think also of the grid used for city planning. Also think of the uses of such a grid in human social institutions and the kind of control they enable. We already noted, or at least suggested, above that linear perspective affects the observer or viewer differently than does Medieval art, whether religious or not. Evaluate the following, contentious claims.