Simultaneous display

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Simultaneous display of the Passion of Christ , 1480/90

A simultaneous representation is an anachronistic representation in the visual arts of events on the same representation that do not actually coincide in terms of time or space.

middle Ages

In the Middle Ages , simultaneous presentations were common and were created analogously to the space and time concept of the simultaneous stage . An example of a late form of the medieval simultaneous picture is "The Justice of Otto III" by Dierick Bouts . It shows Otto III's wife, who, out of revenge, wrongly accused a count who was then executed by the king. The king learns of the count's innocence from the count's wife. The wife submits to the ordeal by fire, passes it, so that Otto III. finally realizes his wife's false accusation and has her executed. All parts of the story can be seen within one picture, the figures are shown several times.

Dierick Bouts "The Justice of Otto III"

Cubism and Futurism

Boccioni, Charge of the Lancers, 1915, private collection, Milano

In Cubism and Futurism , simultaneity is the technique often used to project several views of an object onto the picture surface.

Umberto Boccioni, for example, the founder of Futurism in Italy, depicts entire sequences of movements in one picture.

Individual evidence

  1. Claudia Blümle: Moment or Simultaneity. For simultaneity in the picture. In: Philipp Hubmann; Till Julian Huss (Ed.): Simultaneity: Models of simultaneity in the sciences and arts . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-2261-4 , pp. 37-55.
  2. Claudia Blümle: The witness in the picture: Dieric Bouts and the constitution of the modern legal area . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn; Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7705-5080-7 .
  3. beyars.com