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(3) 'Agatharcus . . . was the first who contrived scenery, upon which he left a treatise. This led Democritus and Anaxagarus, who wrote thereon, to explain how the points of sight and distance ought to guide the lines, as in nature, to a centre, so that by means of pictorial deception, the real appearances of buildings appear on the scene, which, painted on a flat vertical surface, seem, nevertheless, to advance and recede.'—(*Vitruvius* Book VII, Introduction.)