Florence and Baghdad
Belting, Hans / Schneider, Deborah Lucas![Florence and Baghdad](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/111/11134473/CHSBZCOP0311134473.jpg)
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.