Florence And Baghdad: Renaissance Art And Arab Science

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.

• | By (Author): Hans Belting
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 30, 2011
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 312 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0674050045
• | ISBN-13: 9780674050044