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

Paperback. 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 Hoogstratens 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 Rembrandts studio to contemporary engagements with perspective, optics, experimental philosophy, the economics of art, and more. Van Hoogstratens magnum opushere available in an English print edition for the first timebrings textual sources into dialogue with the authors own experience garnered during a multifaceted career. Presenting novel twists on traditional topics, he makes a distinctive case for the status of painting as a universal discipline basic to all the liberal arts. Van Hoogstratens arguments for the authority of what painters know about nature and art speak to contemporary notions of expertise and to the unsettled relations between theory and practice, making this book a valuable document of the intertwined histories of art and knowledge in the seventeenth century. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…