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The New Possibilities of Representation associated with the Development of Renaissance Perspective led to the Formation of new architectural spaces and to a new relationship between architecture, painting, and theatre. Discuss. Before the invention of a theory of mathematical perspective, artists of the middle ages were more interested in depicting religious, spiritual truths rather than the real, physical world. They did not dwell on technicalities such as making a scene scientifically coherent, but determined the scale of objects and figures by their importance. Even as artists began to show a sense of perspective in their art, the lack of a defined theory made drawings appear awkward. Domenico Veneziano's 'St.Zenobius performs a miracle' (1445) is an early example of successful use of perspective. Historians agree that the Florentine Fillipo Brunelleschi was the founder of perspective. He rediscovered the principals of linear perspective construction, a technique which had been known to the ancient Greeks and Romans but forgotten during the middle ages. Brunelleschi demonstrated his findings with two painted panels, now lost, which depicted Florentine streets and buildings. From Antonio Manetti's description of the p