It's speculative to discuss ancient perspective. Aside from a few examples fro 
Pompeii and possibly some mosaics --- all are of Roman origin and not ancient 
Greece.  Apparently the Greeks had quite convincing illusionistic paintings but 
none remain, none, none, none. What was Panofsky to do but to try to construct 
some state of mind when no visual evidence remains?

Also as one who has mentioned both Alberti and Vasari, they are not the only 
artists who left informative writing about their practices. We could begin with 
Cennino Cennini,  read commentaries by many other Ren artists and end, possibly 
with Benvenuto Cellini.

 Alberti is a most worthy source, credited as a Ren art theorist, a new genre, 
who wrote books on sculpture, painting and architecture.  He is also recognized 
as an important architect of the period. Vasari was a late Ren painter whose 
book, Lives of The Artists, was the first effort to compose an art history of 
the Ren.  It is anecdotal but extremely insightful with respect to the 
practices and ideas of the major Ren artists. Any reasonably alert student of 
art history is familiar with Vasari's book.

I find Miller's assumptions and groundless comments about art history rather 
annoying because he presumes that others are as ill-informed as he.   With 
slight effort he could have avoided his comments re Alberti and Vasari,   There 
are various published sources, anthologies, for Documents of Ren. art.

wc

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