Early in the history of Christianity, Saint Augustine brought God into the perception of space and time. Space was no longer measured but instead split between heaven and hell. Time lost its linearity as it became God’s divine and eternal e…In the nineteenth century Manet (1932–1883) and Cezanne (1839–1906) begin to flatten pictorial space and deny the use of a single viewpoint and mathematical perspective (a stylistic standard for centuries). Their stylistic achievements lead…
Giotto di Bondone
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Giotto appears here as a historical pivot point in the representation of spatial perception rather than as a primary subject of analysis. The reading invokes him implicitly as the figure who operationalized mathematical perspective and single-point viewpoint as the dominant artistic convention—the very constraint that Manet and Cézanne would later dismantle in the nineteenth century. His significance to the course lies in establishing the visual regime against which modernism defined itself, making him essential for understanding how shifts in computational and perceptual systems (perspective as algorithm) become sites of artistic rupture.
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