About this book
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?
- Renaissance Art
- Perspective
- Islamic influences
- Comparative Aesthetics
- Optics
- History
- Art, renaissance
- Islamic art
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