A perspectiva como forma simbólica

Pietro Perugino, Christ Handing the Keys to St. Peter (Cappella Sistina, Vaticano).

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«(...) for the discovery of the vanishing point, as "the image of the infinitely distant points of all the orthogonals", is, in a sense, the concrete symbol for the discovery of the infinite itself».

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Erwin Panofsky (1927).