When did people start painting photorealistically?

1960's.

probably renaissance when they into perspective

>>2097511
What caused that artistic shift though? Was it a matter of artists simply having more time, was there a concerted effort to develop the field or was it just a trend which randomly popped up and took hold?

>>2097588
it was mostly to aid in architecture

PS3

>>2097588
Bigger cities with more regular layout and architecture made it easier to discover linear perspective. Discovering linear perspective made rendering certain simple objects realistically very easy, and inspired confidence that everything else could be rendered realistically.

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>>2097619
>implying

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a long time ago

>>2097625
i read before that linear perspective was developed to have the ability to make proper blueprints and to see how something would look before it was built