Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science

by Deborah Lucas Schneider (Author), HansBelting (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $35.74

  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.