Linear Perspective is a geometric method of representing on paper the way that objects appear to get smaller and closer together, the further away they are.
The invention of linear perspective is generally attributed to the Florentine architect Brunelleschi, and the ideas continued to be developed and used by Renaissance artists, notably Piero Della Francesca and Andrea Mantegna. The first book to include a treatise on Perspective, 'On Painting' was published by Leon Battista Alberti in 1436.
Architect Leon Battista Alberti, in 1435, came up with the theoretical and practical skill, which defined the geometrical rules of perspective. He stated all of this in his treatise Della Pittura. The work was an explanation of Brunelleschi's method and became the basis of all later use of perspective. Later theoreticians such as Paolo Uccello, Piero della Francesca and Leonardo da Vinci then later upgraded it. They pretty much supplemented those things that Alberti failed to recognize or explain. An example of this is when Leonardo experimented with portraying an object from several viewpoints or by reducing it to a number of detailed drawings, or even by repeating objects in varied poses, implying the temporal sequence of motion.
