Artifice and illusion
Subtitle: the art and writing of Samuel van Hoogstraten
By: Celeste Brusati.
Contributors: Hoogstraten, Samuel van, 1627-1678.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
Subjects: Hoogstraten, Samuel van, 1627-1678 -- Criticism and interpretation; Trompe l'oeil painting -- Netherlands; Optical illusions in art
Description: Samuel van Hoogstraten is familiar to scholars of Dutch art as a talented pupil and early critic of Rembrandt, and as the author of a major Dutch painting treatise. In this book, Celeste Brusati looks at the art, writing, and career of this multifaceted artist. A rich appreciation of one of the most often cited but least understood figures in seventeenth-century Dutch art, this book will interest scholars and students of art history, social history, and visual culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-345) and index.