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Florence & Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science [German]
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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:2.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 7.1" x 9.7"
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