Main entry:

Alpers, Svetlana, author.

Title & Author:

The art of describing : Dutch art in the seventeenth century / Svetlana Alpers.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1983]
©1983

Description:

xxvii, 273 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Constantijn Huygens and The New World -- "Ut pictura, ita visio": Kepler's model of the eye and the nature of picturing in the North -- "With a sincere hand and a faithful eye": The craft of representation -- The mapping impulse in Dutch art -- Looking at words: the representation of texts in Dutch art -- Epilogue: Vermeer and Rembrandt -- Appendix: On the emblematic interpretation of Dutch art.

Summary:

Constantijn Huygens and The New World -- "Ut pictura, ita visio": Kepler's model of the eye and the nature of picturing in the North -- "With a sincere hand and a faithful eye": The craft of representation -- The mapping impulse in Dutch art -- Looking at words: the representation of texts in Dutch art -- Epilogue: Vermeer and Rembrandt -- Appendix: On the emblematic interpretation of Dutch art.

ISBN:

0226015122
9780226015125
9780226015132
0226015130
0719540631
9780719540639

Subject:

Painting, Dutch 17th century.
Visual perception.
Visual Perception
Peinture néerlandaise.
Peinture Pays-Bas 17e siècle.
Perception visuelle.
visual perception.
Painting, Dutch
Schilderkunst.
Visuele waarneming.
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Painting, Modern 17th-18th centuries Netherlands

Holdings:

Location: Library main 114981
Call No.: PO2309; ID:85-B1898
Status: Available