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The Art and Science of Light in the Middle Ages (Becoming Artsy S4 E1)

In this new season of Becoming Artsy, host Jessie explores PST Art: Art and Science Collide, a groundbreaking, SoCal-wide cultural initiative (September 2024 through February 2025) with 70+ exhibitions and hundreds of programs at the intersection of art and science. In this episode, Jessie visits Lumen: The Art and Science of Light, one of Getty’s nine PST Art exhibitions, and curator Kristen Collins to learn about the history of light in the Middle Ages. The art of the time reflects how science and the divine intertwined to explain natural phenomena like the sun, stars, and rainbows. Light is often portrayed as coming from the heavens, and we see many portrayals of Jesus seated on a rainbow. Scientists in the Middle Ages built on the science hypothesized by ancient philosophers via experimentation and observation. They created a solid foundation of the study of optics (vision and light), and even began to explore the neuroscience of light, or how light affects how we feel through brain processes. Jessie also takes two short field trips, one to the Camera Obscura in Santa Monica to talk with historian Margaret Gaida about optics, and one to Getty’s Entrance Hall to see Charles Ross’s Spectrum 14, a contemporary installation connected to Lumen, in which various large prisms installed in the building’s clear ceilings catch sunlight throughout the day and season, casting rainbows across the space. Jessie talks with curator Glenn Phillips in Getty's Manuscripts room about how Ross wanted to connect people to the Middle Ages through a sense of celestial motion. Special thanks to the Santa Monica Conservancy for allowing us to film at the Camera Obscura!