Author : Celeste Brusati
Release : 1995-11
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 857/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Artifice and Illusion by : Celeste Brusati
Download or read book Artifice and Illusion written by Celeste Brusati. This book was released on 1995-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.