Samuel Van Hoogstraten's Introduction to the Academy of Painting; or, the Visible World

"This volume presents the first English translation of Samuel van Hoogstraten's Introduction to the Academy of Painting; or, The Visible World (1678). Van Hoogstraten's text was the only comprehensive work on painting written by a Dutch artist in the later seventeenth century and a unique account of painting as it was practiced, taught, and discussed during a period of extraordinary artistic and intellectual ferment in the Netherlands"--