Florence and Baghdad
Subtitle: Renaissance art and Arabic science
By: Hans Belting ; translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider
Edition: 1st English language ed.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780674050044
Subjects: Renaissance Art; Perspective; Islamic influences; Comparative Aesthetics; Optics; History
Other titles: Renaissance art and Arabic science
Work titles: Florenz und Baghdad
Description: In this lavishly illustrated study, Belting deals with the double history of perspective, as a visual theory based on geometrical abstraction (in the Middle East) and as pictorial theory (in Europe). Florence and Baghdad addresses a provocative question that reaches beyond the realm of aesthetics and mathematics: What happens when Muslims and Christians look upon each other and find their way of viewing the world transformed as a result?
Notes: Originally published: Florenz und Bagdad : eine westöstliche Geschichte des Blicks. München : Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.