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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 7757789, member: 26302&quot;]Perspective was extremely well known in the ancient world. Monumental Coinage by Tameanko covers this fact very well. The ancient greeks were experts at it. Ever look at a tall building at the base, and it feels like it is tilting in on you? The Greeks were also very aware of this and tilted their columns in 6 degrees inward so as to not have that optical illusion, we simply build them straight and tell people to get used to it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem with the coliseum is they were attempting to so inside and out on a coin. They intentionally had to distort perpsective to accomplish this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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