Florence and Baghdad : Renaissance art and Arab science / Hans Belting ; translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider.
2011
701.8209 B453f 2011
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Title
Florence and Baghdad : Renaissance art and Arab science / Hans Belting ; translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider.
Author
Uniform Title
Florenz und Baghdad
Edition
1st English language ed.
ISBN
9780674050044 (alk. paper)
0674050045 (alk. paper)
0674050045 (alk. paper)
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
303 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Call Number
701.8209 B453f 2011
System Control No.
(OCoLC)701493612
(OCoLC)701493612
(OCoLC)701493612
Note
Originally published: Florenz und Bagdad : eine westöstliche Geschichte des Blicks. München : Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, 2008.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: Describing a Culture: Blickwechsel (Shifting Focus / Exchanging Glances)
Pt.1. Perspective as a Question of Images: Paths between East and West
What Is a Symbolic Form?
Arab Mathematics and Western Art
Geometry and Decorative Art: The Arabesque
The Globalization of Perspective
Blickwechsel: Orhan Pamuk and Perspective as a "Betrayal"
Pt.2. The Taming of the Eye: Criticism of Seeing in Islam
Religion and the Prohibition of Images
Images as a Betrayal of the Living Creation
The Koran as Scripture and Script
Under the Gaze of Allah: Pictures as Narrative
Blickwechsel: Pictures with a Living Gaze
Pt.3. Alhazen's Measurement of Light and the Arab Invention of the Camera Obscura
Alhazen's Book of Optics, the Perspectiva
Distance from Ancient Visual Culture
Pathways of Light and Propeties of Objects
Mathematics and Geometry in Islamic Art
Blickwechsel: Kepler Rediscovers the Camera Obscura
Pt.4. Perception and Knowledge: A Theory of Vision Becomes a Theory of Pictures
Scholasticism and the Conflict over Perception and Epistemology
Before Perspective: The Gaze in Giotto's Painting
Pelacani's Invention of Mathematical Space
Ghiberti's Commentaries and Piero's Mathematical Art
Blickwechsel: Alhazen or Euclid? The Option for Vitruvius
Pt.5. Brunelleschi Measures the Glaze: Mathematical Perspective and Theater
Two Inventors in Florence
Physical Space: The Architecture of the Gaze
"Prospects" on the Stage
Panoramas in Urbino
Blickwechsel: The Geometry of the Muqarnas
Pt.6. The Subject in the Picture: Perspective as a Symbolic Form
Stealing an Emblem: The Eye as Representative of the Gaze
Nicholas of Cusa and the Sovereignty of God's Gaze
The Subject as New Narcissus
The Horizon and the View through aWindow
Blickwechsel: The Mashrabiyya as a Symbolic Form
Conclusion: Comparing the Gaze in Different Cultures
Pt.1. Perspective as a Question of Images: Paths between East and West
What Is a Symbolic Form?
Arab Mathematics and Western Art
Geometry and Decorative Art: The Arabesque
The Globalization of Perspective
Blickwechsel: Orhan Pamuk and Perspective as a "Betrayal"
Pt.2. The Taming of the Eye: Criticism of Seeing in Islam
Religion and the Prohibition of Images
Images as a Betrayal of the Living Creation
The Koran as Scripture and Script
Under the Gaze of Allah: Pictures as Narrative
Blickwechsel: Pictures with a Living Gaze
Pt.3. Alhazen's Measurement of Light and the Arab Invention of the Camera Obscura
Alhazen's Book of Optics, the Perspectiva
Distance from Ancient Visual Culture
Pathways of Light and Propeties of Objects
Mathematics and Geometry in Islamic Art
Blickwechsel: Kepler Rediscovers the Camera Obscura
Pt.4. Perception and Knowledge: A Theory of Vision Becomes a Theory of Pictures
Scholasticism and the Conflict over Perception and Epistemology
Before Perspective: The Gaze in Giotto's Painting
Pelacani's Invention of Mathematical Space
Ghiberti's Commentaries and Piero's Mathematical Art
Blickwechsel: Alhazen or Euclid? The Option for Vitruvius
Pt.5. Brunelleschi Measures the Glaze: Mathematical Perspective and Theater
Two Inventors in Florence
Physical Space: The Architecture of the Gaze
"Prospects" on the Stage
Panoramas in Urbino
Blickwechsel: The Geometry of the Muqarnas
Pt.6. The Subject in the Picture: Perspective as a Symbolic Form
Stealing an Emblem: The Eye as Representative of the Gaze
Nicholas of Cusa and the Sovereignty of God's Gaze
The Subject as New Narcissus
The Horizon and the View through aWindow
Blickwechsel: The Mashrabiyya as a Symbolic Form
Conclusion: Comparing the Gaze in Different Cultures
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