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OverviewSamuel van Hoogstraten was not only one of Rembrandt’s most succesful pupils and a versatile painter. His experiments in optical illusion also attracted the interest of the natural scientists of his time. Furthermore, he wrote some of the first Dutch novels, plays, and a treatise on painting. After travelling to Rome, Vienna, and London he introduced European courtiers’ manners in the Low Countries. In this book, a collective of specialists with different backgrounds sheds light on the facets of Van Hoogstraten’s work that demonstrates in a unique manner how art, literature, and science were interrelated in the Dutch Golden Age. The contributors devote special attention to his theory of art and his literary writings, the role of paintings in his social network, his contacts in Italy and Britain, and finally the art of his master, Rembrandt. Bringing to the fore hitherto unknown works and highlighting new connections between word and image, the book is an important contribution to our understanding of Van Hoogstraten’s universal art and its implications for Early Modern cultural history. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Thijs Weststeijn , Jan Blanc (University of Geneva) , Celeste Brusati (University of Michigan) , Paul Taylor (Warburg Institute)Publisher: Amsterdam University Press Imprint: Amsterdam University Press Dimensions: Width: 19.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 25.00cm ISBN: 9789089645234ISBN 10: 9089645233 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 01 July 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Adult education , Professional & Vocational , Further / Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsThis volume on the artist, writer, and poet Samuel van Hoogstraten adds considerably to our understanding of Rembrandt's most learned and cosmopolitan pupil. The rich contributions cover all aspects of his career, highlighting little known activities such as Van Hoogstraten's poetry and novels. These inspiring and thought-provoking proceedings complement recent monographic publications on Samuel van Hoogstraten. Moreover, this book is an important contribution to the history of knowledge in the early-modern Netherlands. C. Tico Seifert, Senior Curator of Northern European Art, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh - 'Samuel van Hoogstraten is a fascinating, complex artist whose art and writings make him central to understanding seventeenth-century Dutch art. Despite several recent studies devoted to aspects of his contribution, he remains understudied and perhaps misunderstood. He is also an artist who is currently of great interest. The proposed volume of collected essays, which will surely appeal to a broad readership, is most welcome not just for its subject matter - Samuel van Hoogstraten - but also for its original interpretations and impressive range of perspectives and approaches. (..)Thijs Weststeijn is an outstanding, rigorous researcher and an original thinker who has more significantly than anyone else advanced the study of SvH. H.'(from the peer review by Perry Chapman, Professor of Art History, University of Delaware) This volume on the artist, writer, and poet Samuel van Hoogstraten adds considerably to our understanding of Rembrandt's most learned and cosmopolitan pupil. The rich contributions cover all aspects of his career, highlighting little known activities such as Van Hoogstraten's poetry and novels. These inspiring and thought-provoking proceedings complement recent monographic publications on Samuel van Hoogstraten. Moreover, this book is an important contribution to the history of knowledge in the early-modern Netherlands. C. Tico Seifert, Senior Curator of Northern European Art, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh Author InformationThijs Weststeijn is a researcher and lecturer at the department of Art History of the University of Amsterdam. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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