 This work maintains a heavy importance in the Art History world , as it is widely believed to be the first painting , since the fall of Rome ( ca . 476 A.D. ) , to use Scientific Linear One Point Perspective , or , all the orthogonals point to one vanishing point , in this case , Christ . Also , it is one of the first paintings that does away with the use of a head @-@ cluster . A technique employed by earlier Proto @-@ Renaissance artists , such as Giotto or Duccio . If you were to walk into the painting , you could walk around Jesus Christ , in the semicircle created , and back out the painting again with ease . 
