Overview
The theory of perspective, which allowed Florentine artists to depict the world from a spectator's point of view, originated in Baghdad with an eleventh-century mathematician. Using the metaphor of the mutual gaze, Belting narrates the encounter between science and art, Arab Baghdad and Renaissance Florence, that revolutionized Western culture.
- | By (Author): Hans Belting
- | Publisher: Harvard University Press
- | Publication Date: Sep 30, 2011
- | Country of Publication: United States
- | Number of Pages: 312 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardback
- | ISBN-10: 0674050045
- | ISBN-13: 9780674050044
