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

$75.00 at The Getty Museum.

Samuel van HoogstratenEdited by Celeste BrusatiTranslation by Jaap Jacobs 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 Hoogstraten’s Inleyding tot de hooge schoole der schilderkonst, anders de zichtbaere werelt (Introduction to the Academy of Painting; or, The Visible…