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Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance art and arab Science
[Hardback - 2011]
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Category: Art
Sub-category: Islamic Art
Publisher: Harvard University Press Usa | ISBN: 9780674050044 | Pages: 312
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The use of perspective in Renaissance painting caused a revolution in the history of seeing, allowing artists to depict the world from a spectator s point of view. But the theory of perspective that changed the course of Western art originated elsewhere-it was formulated in Baghdad by the eleventh-century mathematician Ibn al Haithan, known in the West as Alhazen. Using the metaphor of the mutual gaze, or exchanged glances, Hans Belting-preeminent historian and theorist of medieval, Renaissance, and contemporary art-narrates the historical encounter between science and art, between Arab Baghdad and Renaissance Florence, that has had a lasting effect on the culture of the West.

Hans Belting is Professor for Art History and Media Theory at the Academy for Design in Karlsruhe, Germany.

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