Samuel Van Hoogstraten s Introduction to the Academy of Painting; - Or, the Visible Worl

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.

About the author

Celeste Brusati is a professor emerita of art and the history of art at the University of Michigan. She has published articles and books on still-life painting, perspective, trompe l'oeil illusionism, and the relation between visual and textual discourses on art in the Netherlands.

Jaap Jacobs is an honorary reader at the University of St Andrews. He has published widely on the history of the Dutch Republic and its colonies during the early modern period.

Product details

• Authors: Celeste Brusati, Samuel Van Hoogstraten, Jaap Jacobs, Samuel Van Hoogstraten, Samuel Brusati Van Hoogstraten
• Assisted by: Celeste Brusati (Editor), Jaap Jacobs (Translation)
• Publisher: Getty, j.paul, museum publ.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781606066676
• ISBN: 978-1-60606-667-6
• No. of pages: 424
• Series: Texts & Documents; BIBLIOTHECA PAEDIATRICA REF KARGER; Getty Publications - (Yale); Getty Publications –
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history