Perspective and Stage Design, Fiction and Reality in the Italian Renaissance Theater of the Fifteenth Century

The essay calls into question the well-rehearsed history of perspectival sets as self-consciuous derivations from classical texts, especially Vitruvius, by adducing the practices of painters as sources rather than records. Inverting the received story of perspectival drama as classicizing and stressing the role of extratextual practices, the essay suggests that the primary innovations in Italian Renaissance drama come from visual arts