Title: Artifice and illusion
First published: 1995
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.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Trompe l'oeil painting, Optical illusions in art, Painters, netherlands
Places: Netherlands
People: Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678)
LC classification: ND653.H79 B78 1995