Samuel Van Hoogstraten's Introduction to the Academy of Painting; or, the Visible World
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Publication
2021 - Getty Publications
Language
English
Word Count
106,000 words, Guess
Page Count
424 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL29510668M
- ISBN-139781606066676
- OCLC Control Number1159659311
- Library of Congress Control Number2020023310
Classifications
- LCCND1130.H6513 2020
Description
"This volume presents the first English translation of Samuel van Hoogstraten's Introduction to the Academy of Painting; or, The Visible World (1678). Van Hoogstraten's text was the only comprehensive work on painting written by a Dutch artist in the later seventeenth century and a unique account of painting as it was practiced, taught, and discussed during a period of extraordinary artistic and intellectual ferment in the Netherlands"--
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