The visible world : Samuel van Hoogstraten's art theory and the legitimation of painting in the Dutch golden age

✍ Scribed by Hoogstraten, Samuel van; Jackson, Beverley; Hoogstraten, Samuel van; Richards, Lynne; Weststeijn, Thijs

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English, Dutch
• Leaves: 476
• Series: Amsterdam studies in the Dutch golden age
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Visible World explores the writings of Dutch painter and poet Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627–78)—one of Rembrandt’s pupils—and clarifies his use of painterly themes and theory from the Dutch Golden Age. Van Hoogstraten drew on a variety of literary, philosophical, and artistic sources, as well as from history and travel accounts, in writing has magnum opus, Introduction to the Academy of Painting; or the Visible World (1678) a cross-section of general seventeenth-century views on art in Holland. Questioning the motives of artists represented by van Hoogstraten’s theory, as well as the contested issues behind Dutch realism and its hidden symbolism, author Thijs Weststeijn provides an ambitious overview of seventeenth-century painting through the eyes of contemporary Dutch artists from the age.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
Ch I: Samuel van Hoogstraten in the Republic of Letters
Ch II:The Visible World
Ch III:Pictorial Imitation
Ch IV:The Depiction of the Passions
Ch V:The Eloquence of Colour
Ch VI:Painting as a Mirror of Nature
Excursus: Painting as a 'Sister of Philosophy'
Conclusion
Bibliographical abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Studies
Index of subjects
Index of names.

✦ Subjects

Hoogstraten, Samuel van, -- 1627-1678 -- Criticism and interpretation. Hoogstraten, Samuel van, -- 1627-1678 -- Aesthetics. Painting, Dutch -- 17th century. Hoogstraten, Samuel van, -- 1627-1678 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Aesthetics. ART -- History -- General. The arts. History of art -- art and design styles. Humanities. History.