Where Islamic Visual Theory and Western Pictorial Tradition Meet: 360° Panoramic Photography’s Two-Dimensional Image Projections and Sacred Spaces

Using this author's ongoing project Sacred Spaces of New England and Hans Belting's book Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science as starting points, this paper compares and contrasts Islamic visual theory with Western pictorial tradition and examines Islamic pattern design t...

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Main Author: Thompson, Seth (author)
Format: article
Published: 2021
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11073/21320
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Summary:Using this author's ongoing project Sacred Spaces of New England and Hans Belting's book Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science as starting points, this paper compares and contrasts Islamic visual theory with Western pictorial tradition and examines Islamic pattern design to root this author's 360° panoramic photography's two-dimensional geometric image projections of sacred spaces into an artistic tradition.