The visible world : Samuel van Hoogstraten's art theory and the legitimation of painting in the Dutch golden age / Thijs Weststeijn ; translated by Beverley Jackson and Lynne Richards.
Provides an ambitious overview of Dutch artists' ideas on painting.
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[Amsterdam] :
Amsterdam University Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Amsterdam studies in the Dutch golden age.
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Table of Contents:
- Samuel Van Hoogstraten in the republic of letters
- The visible world
- Pictorial imitation
- The depiction of the passions
- The eloquence of colour
- Painting as a mirror of nature
- Excursus: painting as a 'sister of philosophy'