Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science
Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science
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佛罗伦萨和巴格达：文艺复兴艺术和阿拉伯科学
DOI：
10.5860/choice.49-1858
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发表时间：
2011
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0.4
通讯作者：
H. Belting
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作者：
H. Belting
文艺复兴时期绘画中透视法的使用引发了视觉史上的一场革命，使艺术家能够从观众的角度描绘世界。但是，改变西方艺术进程的透视理论起源于其他地方--它是由11世纪的数学家伊本·海森（Ibn al Haithan）在巴格达提出的，在西方被称为Alhazen。使用相互凝视的比喻，或交换目光，汉斯·贝尔廷--中世纪、文艺复兴和当代艺术的杰出历史学家和理论家--讲述了科学与艺术之间的历史相遇，阿拉伯巴格达和文艺复兴时期的佛罗伦萨之间的相遇，这对西方文化产生了持久的影响。在这本插图丰富的研究中，Belting处理了透视的双重历史，作为基于几何抽象的视觉理论（在中东）和图像理论（在欧洲）。几何抽象如何能被重新理解为一种绘画理论呢？在中世纪，阿拉伯数学，从宗教话语中解放出来，产生了一种透视理论，后来在西方，当欧洲画家采用人类凝视作为他们的焦点时，这种理论被转化为艺术。在伊斯兰世界，神学和视觉艺术仍然紧密地交织在一起，透视学并没有成为伊斯兰艺术的基石。佛罗伦萨和巴格达提出了一个超越美学和数学领域的挑衅性问题：当穆斯林和基督徒互相注视，发现他们看待世界的方式因此改变时，会发生什么？
The use of perspective in Renaissance painting caused a revolution in the history of seeing, allowing artists to depict the world from a spectator's point of view. But the theory of perspective that changed the course of Western art originated elsewhere--it was formulated in Baghdad by the eleventh-century mathematician Ibn al Haithan, known in the West as Alhazen. 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. 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). How could geometrical abstraction be reconceived as a theory for making pictures? During the Middle Ages, Arab mathematics, free from religious discourse, gave rise to a theory of perspective that, later in the West, was transformed into art when European painters adopted the human gaze as their focal point. In the Islamic world, where theology and the visual arts remained closely intertwined, the science of perspective did not become the cornerstone of Islamic art. Florence and Baghdad addresses a provocative question that reaches beyond the realm of aesthetics and mathematics: What happens when Muslims and Christians look upon each other and find their way of viewing the world transformed as a result?