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Florence and Baghdad
Hardback · Harvard University Press
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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 spectators point of view. But the theory of perspective that changed the course of Western art originated elsewhereit 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 Beltingpreeminent historian and theorist of medieval, Renaissance, and contemporary artnarrates 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.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). How could geometrical abstraction be reconceived as a theory for making pictures? During the Middle Ages, Arab...
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