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Theatre 100: Intro to Theatre

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In The Beginning…<br />

• Around 1415: Filippo Brunelleschi discovers the<br />

secret of linear perspective: a mathematical<br />

system for creating the illusion of space and<br />

distance on a flat surface<br />

• 1435: Leon Battista Alberti publishes<br />

Brunelleschi's secret in Della Pitture<br />

• 1508: Pellegrino di San Daniele places<br />

individual houses in front of a painted backdrop<br />

for a staging of Arios<strong>to</strong>'s The Casket at Ferrara

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