Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science by Hans Belting - 2011

Cambridge: The Belknap Press, 2011. First Edition. 8vo. 303 pp. b/w illustrations Quarter black cloth and purple paper boards lettered in gilt at spine. Top and bottom board edges toned, small tear to bottom corner of front board. Illustrated jacket. Rubbed, edges creased, small tear to bottom edge of front flap. Good in Good dust jacket. In mylar sleeve.

Paperback. Very Good.

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011-08-31. Hardcover. Good.

Harvard University Press. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2011. Hardcover. VG/VG. Lilac boards with black spine. Color-illustrated dust jacket with black lettering. 303 pp. Color and BW illustrations. "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?"- website Contents include: Introduction : Describing a culture : Blickwechsel (shifting focus / exchanging glances) -- 1. Perspective as a question of images : paths between East and West. What is a symbolic form? ; Arab mathematics and Western art ; Geometry and decorative art : the arabesque ; the globalization of perspective ; Blickwechsel : Orhan Pamuk and perspective as a… Read More

Hardback. New. 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.

Hardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; 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 narrat

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