Florence and baghdad: renaissance art and arab science
Auteur :
Belting, Hans
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674050044
Date de publication :
31 août 2011
Dimensions :
21,0 x 15,0 x 2,5 cm
Poids :
934 g
Format :
book
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.