Practice question · Multiple choice
Brunelleschi demonstrated perspective around 1420; Alberti wrote it down as a procedure in 1435. Why does the second event matter as much as the first?
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- Ask how a technique travels from one workshop to hundreds.
- What can a book do that a demonstration cannot?
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B. Because a written procedure can be learned by anyone
Why
Invention and diffusion are different problems. The panel showed it could be done; the treatise made it teachable, and that is what turned a trick into a period style.
Practise The Italian Renaissance
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