ABSTRACT
Perhaps the first attempt to codify a method of perspective is that found in Cennino Cennini's Book oJ Painting (e. 1400):
Y ou put the buildings in by this uniform system: that the mouldings that you make at the top of the building should slant downwards ... the moulding in the middle should be quite level and even; the moulding at the base mnst slant upward.
