Samuel van Hoogstratens Introduction to the Academy of Painting; or, The Visible World
Samuel van Hoogstratens Introduction to the Academy of Painting; or, The Visible World A unique seventeenth-century account of painting as it was practiced, taught, and discussed during a period of…
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Samuel van Hoogstratens Introduction to the Academy of Painting; or, The Visible World
A unique seventeenth-century account of painting as it was practiced, taught, and discussed during a period of extraordinary artistic and intellectual ferment in the Netherlands. The only comprehensive work on painting written by a Dutch artist in the later seventeenth century, Samuel van Hoogstraten's Inleyding tot de hooge schoole der schilderkonst, anders de zichtbaere werelt (Introduction to the Academy of Painting; or, The Visible World, 1678) has long served as a source of valuable insights on a range of topics, from firsthand reports of training in Rembrandt's studio to contemporary engagements with perspective, optics, experimental philosophy, the economics of art, and more.Van Hoogstraten's magnum opus--here available in an English print edition for the first time--brings textual sources into dialogue with the author's own experience garnered during a
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