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 an...

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Uniform Title: Florenz und Bagdad
Main Author: Belting, Hans.
Format: Book
Language: English
German
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
Physical Description: 303 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Edition: 1st English language ed.
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CMU Main Books 3rd Floor

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CMU Main Books 3rd Floor NC748 .B4513 2011 Available
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