Florence and Baghdad

Cambridge/London (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press), 2011.. (4), 303pp. 108 plates. Sm. 4to. Boards, 1/4 cloth. D.j.

Hardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; 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 th

Hardback. New. 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.

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