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 di Bondone appears here as a foundational figure in Western perspectival representation—the mathematical single-viewpoint system that Manet and Cézanne would later reject and deconstruct. The readings invoke him implicitly as the artist who moved beyond Augustine's medieval splitting of space into divine and earthly realms toward the geometric rationalization of pictorial space, establishing the visual logic that modernism would then systematically dismantle. This genealogy matters to the seminar because it frames the shift from religious to mathematical to computational orders of representation as successive ways of organizing perception and control.
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