Florence and Baghdad

Renaissance Art and Arab Science

Belting, Hans

Harvard University Press, 2011

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The theory of perspective, which allowed Florentine artists to depict the world from a spectator’s point of view, originated in Baghdad with an eleventh-century mathematician. Using the metaphor of the mutual gaze, Belting narrates the encounter between science and art, Arab Baghdad and Renaissance Florence, that revolutionized Western culture.

ISBN-13
9780674050044
ISBN-10
0674050045
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2011
Publication date
2011-08-31
Pages
312
Dimensions
242 x 178 x 24
Weight
938