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The question of whether the theoretical aspects of Cubism enunciated by Metzinger and Gleizes bore any relation to the development in science at the beginning of the twentieth century has been vigorously disputed by art critics, historians and scientists alike.

Yet in Du " Cubisme " Jean Metzinger and Albert Gleizes articulate: " If we wished to relate the space of the painters to geometry, we should have to refer it to the non-Euclidian mathematicians ; we should have to study, at some length, certain of Riemann's theorems.