Florence & Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science [German]

by Hans Belting

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: German
• ISBN: 0674050045
• ISBN13: 9780674050044
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 9.7"