REPRESENTATIONS OF SPACE AND SPACE OF REPRESENTATION

Abstract

Thenotions of spatiality are cultural, constructed and mutable, and can be manifested in different ways. Perspective representation, forexample,is one of the
most concrete ways of object ifying and recording such notions. It is well known that the drawing in perspective was not always constructe din the way we know today: before the Renaissance canon, these representations were not limited to the principle of geometrization of the world, where the manviewed himself as aspect at orin the center of a setting of a dominant architecture. Records show that the most usual forms of representing space in the cultures of Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages were quite intuitive and determined by the subjective point of view of man, who presented himself as theprotagonistofthespace,acquiringlegitimacy walking along a pathway.