Which Renaissance method uses a vanishing point to create the illusion of depth on a flat surface?

Linear perspective is the Renaissance method that uses a vanishing point to create the illusion of depth on a flat surface.

The system represents parallel lines receding into space as lines that appear to converge toward one or more vanishing points. Objects generally become smaller as their imagined distance from the viewer increases, allowing artists to construct convincing architectural and landscape settings.

Filippo Brunelleschi is traditionally credited with demonstrating a systematic form of one-point perspective in Florence during the early fifteenth century. Leon Battista Alberti later explained principles of pictorial construction in his treatise De pictura, published in 1435.

Linear perspective is not the same as sfumato, which softens transitions between tones, or chiaroscuro, which models form through light and dark. Renaissance artists combined these techniques to make paintings appear more spatially and physically persuasive.