I mean the power of specifically growing out of one's self, of

making the past and the strange one body with the near and the
present, of healing wounds, replacing what is lost, repairing
broken molds.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Stefan Arteni

Visual art, evolutionary game theory,

cybernetics, logic of distinctions,
polycontexturality: a heuristic musing.

VI – Excursus IIb
[Notes for a lecture-demonstration; March 9, 2006,
QCC Art Gallery CUNY, New York]

SolInvictusPress 2007
St. Pellegrino Church of Bominaco, 13th century, wall paintings
St. Pellegrino Church of Bominaco, 13th century, wall paintings
Crete, Byzantine fresco, 14th century
Crete, Byzantine fresco, 14th century
Crete,
Byzantine
fresco,
14th century
Crete, Byzantine fresco, 14th century
Crete, Byzantine fresco, 14th century
St. John's Monastery fresco, Patmos
Mario Sironi
Mario Sironi
Galluskapelle, Stammheim, wall paintings
Galluskapelle, Stammheim, wall paintings
Raoul Dufy
Raoul Dufy
The crypt of St. Agatha, Malta, wall paintings
The crypt of St. Agatha, Malta, wall paintings
Gothic
wall painting
Historia Anglorum,
c. 1250
Rheinau Psalter,
13th century
Illuminated Chronicle, c. 1360
Oratorio dei Santi Nazaro e Celso, wall paintings
Andrea da Firenze (Andrea di Bonaiuto)
Giotto
(Ambrogio
Bondone)
Mario Sironi
Giusto de Menabuoi
Giusto de Menabuoi
Giusto de Menabuoi
Ugolino de Nerio
Mario Sironi, stained glass window
Mario Siron, studies for
wall paintings
Simone Martini,
wall paintings
Simone Martini,
wall painting
Simone Martini,
wall painting
Simone Martini,
stained glass window
Pietro Lorenzetti
Pietro Lorenzetti, wall painting
Taddeo Gaddi, wall painting
Agnolo Gaddi, wall painting
Agnolo Gaddi, wall painting
Agnolo Gaddi, wall painting
Agnolo Gaddi, wall painting
Agnolo Gaddi, wall painting,
detail after restoration
Mario Sironi
Mario
Sironi
Mario
Sironi
Felice Casorati
Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro da Mugello),
Cappella Niccolina, the Vatican
Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro da Mugello),
Cappella Niccolina, the Vatican
Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro da Mugello),
Cappella Niccolina, the Vatican
Fra Angelico
(Guido di Pietro
da Mugello),
Cappella Niccolina,
the Vatican
Fra Angelico
(Guido di Pietro
da Mugello),
Cappella Niccolina,
the Vatican
Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro da Mugello),
Cappella Niccolina, the Vatican
Benozzo di Lese
di Sandro (Gozzoli)
Benozzo di Lese
di Sandro (Gozzoli)
Benozzo di Lese di Sandro (Gozzoli)
Benozzo di Lese di Sandro (Gozzoli),
wall paintings
Benozzo di Lese di Sandro (Gozzoli)
Benozzo di Lese di Sandro (Gozzoli), wall painting
Benozzo di Lese di Sandro (Gozzoli), wall painting
Benozzo di Lese di Sandro (Gozzoli), wall painting
Benozzo di Lese
di Sandro (Gozzoli)
transferred fresco
Benozzo di Lese
di Sandro (Gozzoli)
transferred fresco
Benozzo di Lese di Sandro (Gozzoli)
Giovanni di Paolo
Bernardino da Parenzo
Raoul Dufy
Cosimo Rosselli (the scene on the left is by Pietro Perugino), wall painting
Cosimo Rosselli, wall painting
Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi), wall painting
Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi), wall painting
Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi), wall painting
Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi), wall painting
(the scene on the left is by Luca Signorelli)
Jean Hey
(Master of Moulins)
Jean Hey
(Master of Moulins)
Attributed to Hugo van der Goes
Attributed to Hugo van der Goes

Hugo van der Goes

Anonymous
Flemish master
Delft master
Follower of Robert Campin

Dirck Bouts the Elder

Dirck Bouts the Elder
Felice Casorati
Madonna with Child
(wall painting,
about 1500),
Church of Pisignano
Master of the
St. Bartholomew
altarpiece
Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)
François Clouet
Dosso Dossi
Tiziano Vecellio
Tiziano Vecellio
Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)
Francesco Mazzola (Parmigianino)
Hendrik van BALEN

Joachim Anthonisz
Wtewael
Jan Sanders
Hemessen
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael
Hendrick Goltzius
Hendrick Goltzius