The third of a series of lectures at the Institute by Professor Giovanni Aloi (School of the Art Institute of Chicago). This series of three lectures looks at the history of representation in Italian art from the unrealistic organizations of space in medieval painting and the recovery of classical perspective that shaped the Renaissance to the fragmentation of space in modern and contemporary art. 

Over three installments, this series argues that the construction of space in art and architecture constitutes much more than a simple aesthetic solution in representation and that the ways in which Italian artists have constructed space in their work is part of a complex relationship which defines the essence of being human in a preceise moment of time and place.