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The Visible World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 477

The Visible World

  • Categories: Art

How did painters and their public speak about art in Rembrandt's age? This book about the writings of the painter-poet Samuel van Hoogstraten, one of Rembrandt's pupils, examines a wide variety of themes from painting practice and theory from the Dutch Golden Age. It addresses the contested issue of 'Dutch realism' and its hidden symbolism, as well as Rembrandt's concern with representing emotions in order to involve the spectator. Diverse aspects of imitation and illusion come to the fore, such as the theory behind sketchy or 'rough' brushwork and the active role played by the viewer's imagination. Taking as its starting point discussions in Rembrandt's studio, this unique study provides an ambitious overview of Dutch artists' ideas on painting.

The universal art of Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

The universal art of Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678)

  • Categories: Art

Samuel van Hoogstraten was meer dan een succesvol leerling van Rembrandt en een veelzijdig schilder. Door zijn experimenten met optische illusies zocht hij aansluiting bij de natuurwetenschap van zijn tijd. Bovendien schreef hij enkele van de eerste Nederlandse romans en toneelstukken, en een schildertraktaat. Hij reisde naar Rome, Wenen en Londen, en introduceerde de Europese hofcultuur in de Lage Landen. In dit boek onderzoeken verschillende specialisten Van Hoogstratens werk, dat op unieke wijze aantoont hoe in de Nederlandse Gouden Eeuw schilderkunst, literatuur en wetenschap verweven waren. Hierbij gaat bijzondere aandacht uit naar Van Hoogstratens kunsttheorie en zijn literaire teksten, de rol van schilderijen in zijn sociale netwerk, zijn contacten in Italië en Engeland en natuurlijk de kunst van zijn leermeester, Rembrandt. Door nog onbekende werken voor het voetlicht te brengen en nieuwe verbanden te leggen tussen woord en beeld, levert dit boek een belangrijke bijdrage aan ons begrip van Van Hoogstratens `universele kunst in het bredere kader van de vroegmoderne cultuurgeschiedenis.

Samuel van Hoogstraten's Introduction to the Academy of Painting; or, The Visible World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 426

Samuel van Hoogstraten's Introduction to the Academy of Painting; or, The Visible World

  • Categories: Art

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 ...

Artifice and Illusion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 466

Artifice and Illusion

  • Categories: Art

Samuel van Hoogstraten is familiar to scholars of Dutch art as a talented pupil and early critic of Rembrandt, and as the author of a major Dutch painting treatise. In this book, Celeste Brusati looks at the art, writing, and career of this multifaceted artist. A rich appreciation of one of the most often cited but least understood figures in seventeenth-century Dutch art, this book will interest scholars and students of art history, social history, and visual culture.

Thinking Bodies – Shaping Hands
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 377

Thinking Bodies – Shaping Hands

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-08-12
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This book by Yannis Hadjinicolaou offers an account of the term Handeling in the Netherlandish art and theory of the late Rembrandists (like Arent de Gelder) and hence between 1650 and 1720.

Vermeer's Camera
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 238

Vermeer's Camera

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Art historians have long speculated on how Vermeer achieved the uncanny mixture of detached precision, compositional repose, and perspective accuracy that have drawn many to describe his work as "photographic." Indeed, many wonder if Vermeer employed a camera obscura, a primitive form of camera, to enhance his realistic effects? In Vermeer's Camera, Philip Steadman traces the development of the camera obscura--first described by Leonaro da Vinci--weighs the arguments that scholars have made for and against Vermeer's use of the camera, and offers a fascinating examination of the paintings themselves and what they alone can tell us of Vermeer's technique. Vermeer left no record of his method a...

A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings V
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 674

A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings V

  • Categories: Art

This volume is the fifth volume of A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, a project devoted to all Rembrandt’s paintings. This is the work of ‘The Rembrandt Research Project’, consisting of a group of scholars led since 1993 by Professor Ernst van de Wetering. The project began in 1968 with the aim of separating Rembrandt’s own paintings from the vast number of Rembrandtesque paintings made by his many apprentices and followers. Having opted for a chronological approach to the cataloguing of Rembrandt’s paintings (from 1625 till 1642) in the first three volumes, it was decided in 1993 to adopt a thematic approach for further volumes. This was largely to facilitate the recognition of diff...

The Dordrecht Museum. Looking at Six Centuries of Painting
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 162

The Dordrecht Museum. Looking at Six Centuries of Painting

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Unknown

De schilderkunst is de ?machtigste onder alle kunsten?, schreef Samuel van Hoogstraten, de beroemde 17deeeuwse schilder-schrijver uit Dordrecht. Want met een perfecte illusie kan de schilder het oog verleiden, zelfs misleiden. ?Net echt? kan betoverend zijn. Maar een schilderij kan je ook om heel andere redenen raken. Het toont je de wereld zoals je die niet eerder zag. 00In het Dordrechts Museum vind je zes eeuwen Nederlandse schilderkunst onder één dak. Schilderijen van voor 1600 tot hedendaagse kunst. Een levende collectie, waarin oud en nieuw elkaar ontmoeten. En juist daardoor raak je er niet snel uitgekeken. Het plezier van het kijken staat in het nieuwe collectieboek van het museum ...

The Learned Eye
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 229

The Learned Eye

  • Categories: Art

The 'learned eye' or oculus eruditus was a concept used by seventeenth-century writers on painting. It illustrated their view that the ideal artist was not only skilled in painting techniques, but also had knowledge of the history of art and an interest i.

Elysium Britannicum, Or the Royal Gardens
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 510

Elysium Britannicum, Or the Royal Gardens

Interlacing in his work practical, literary, and philosophical approaches to landscape architecture, Evelyn created the first large-scale encyclopedic work on the science and art of gardening."--BOOK JACKET.