Florence and Baghdad : Renaissance art and Arab science
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). Florence and Baghdad addresses a provocative question that reaches beyond the realm of aesthetics and mathematics: What happens when Muslims and Christians look upon each other and find their way of viewing the world transformed as a result?
Print Book, English, 2011
1st English language ed
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2011