He wrote his Ph.D thesis on Shakespeare and Renaissance perspective.
The Renaissance perspective and jewel-like rendering, combined with an aggressive sexual polymorphism, has sometimes seemed reactionary, literary and, well, sick.
Dalí did not simply resurrect Renaissance perspective.
Denying the illusion of Renaissance perspective the artist breaks down the figures and background into facets and planes, presenting multiple aspects of the subject all at once.
The details of each scene are finely modeled, and techniques of Renaissance perspective and different levels of relief give each scene a sense of depth.
He argues that "cyber-art" represents "a transformation in the nature of visuality probably more profound than the break that separates medieval imagery from Renaissance perspective."
They looked to Japanese and Chinese art, which was learned and sophisticated and did not employ Renaissance one-point perspective.
Renaissance perspective was invented to help painters and draftsman extend the appearance of depth on the picture plane.
Thrilled with the power and grandeur of so-called primitive art, early modern artists abandoned Renaissance perspective in search of something more direct.
Most of them also employ Renaissance perspective, and the kind of comprehensible space that follows from that.