Florence and Baghdad

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.

Cambridge/London (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press), 2011.. (4), 303pp. 108 plates. Sm. 4to. Boards, 1/4 cloth. D.j.

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 narrates th

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.

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