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Hardcover • 2011 • English
By Hans Belting, Professor for Art History and Media Theory Hans Belting
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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 historian and theorist of medieval, Renaissance,...Show more
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ISBN
9780674050044
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published year
2011
Language
English
Original title
Florence and Baghdad Renaissance Art and Arab Science
Format
Hardcover
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