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Florence & Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science

Florence & Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science

Florence & Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science

$39.95

Belting, Hans. Florence & Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

2011

90189

Using the metaphor of the mutual gaze, or exchanged glances, Hans Belting - preeminent historian and theorist of medieval, Renaissance, and contemporary art - narrates the historical encounter between science and art, between Arab Baghdad and Renaissance Florence, that has had a lasting effect on the culture of the West.

303 pp. Cl