No longer governed by the laws of a single, central perspective, artists were able to depict the subject from various simultaneous viewpoints.
The general principles of central perspective were not discovered and codified until fifty years later, in Florence, through the work of Brunelleschi and Alberti respectively. In Broederlam's days, they were known only in a fragmentary form.
central perspective a scientific and mathematical method of three-dimensional representation developed by Filippo Brunelleschi (1376 -1446) at the beginning of the 15th century.
Durer was perfectly adept at brilliantly applying the discovery of central perspective, Vitruvius' (born c. 84 B.C.) canon of human proportions and Da Vinci's (1452 - 1519) theory of the ideal proportions of the horse, ...
The central perspective is perpendicular to the picture plane, made more emphatic by the dim arcade behind, against which the heroic figures are disposed as in a frieze, with a hint of the artificial lighting and staging of opera, ...
Bread and Fruit Dish on a Table (1909) marks the beginning of Picasso's "Analytical" Cubism: he gives up a central perspective and splits forms up into facet-like stereo-metric shapes.
 See also: Painting, Perspective, School, Movement, Classic
  
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