The Visible World
By Thijs Weststeijn
Amsterdam University Press | February 2000 | ISBN-10: 9089640274 | 477 Pages | PDF | 35 mb

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.

CONTENTS
Preface and acknowledgements 9
Introduction 11
I. samuel van hoogstraten in the republic of letters 25
II. the visible world 83
III. pictorial imitation 123
IV. the depiction of the passions 171
V. the eloquence of colour 219
VI. painting as a mirror of nature 269
Excursus: painting as a ‘sister of philosophy’ 329
Conclusion 353
Notes 361
Bibliography 443
Indices 463
 
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