Title: Florence and 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?
Subjects: Renaissance Art, Perspective, Islamic influences, Comparative Aesthetics, Optics, History, Art, renaissance, Islamic art, Art, Mathematics
Places: Islamic countries