The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century (1983) PDF
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The Art of Describing ;. ~ . / !. _',,',). '. . ···~ Svetlana Alpers The Art of Describing Dutch Art intheSeventeenth Century THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 John Murray (Publishers) Led, London WIX 4BD © 1983 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 1983 Paperback edition 1984 Printed in the United States of America 93 92 91 90 89 88 87 86 85 84 7 6 5 4 3 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Alpers, Svetlana. The art of describing. Includes bibliographical references and index. I. Painting, Dutch. 2. Painting, Modern-17th-18th centuries-Netherlands. 3. Visual perception. I. Title. ND646.A72 759.9492 82-6969 ISBN 0-226-01512-2 (cloth) AACR2 ISBN 0-226-01513-0 (paper) SVETLANA ALPERS is professor of art history at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an editor of Representations and of The Raritan Review and is the author of The Decoration of the Torre de la Parada and articles on northern painting and on the study of art and its history. To Paul and Benjamin and Nicholas \ l Contents List of Illustrations IX Preface xv Introduction XVll 1 Constantijn Huygens and The New World 1 2 "Ut pictura, ita visio": Kepler's Model of the Eye and the Nature of Picturing in the North 26 3 "With a Sincere Hand and a Faithful Eye": The Craft of Representation 72 4 The Mapping Impulse in Dutch Art 119 5 Looking at Words: The Representation of Texts in Dutch Art 169 Epilogue: Vermeer and Rembrandt 222 Appendix: On the Emblematic Interpretation of Dutch Art 229 Notes 235 Index 269 vu Plate 1. DAVID BAILLY, Still Life, 1651. Ste<lelijk Museum "de Lakenhal," Leiden. Plate 2. )Al\i Vrn.:'v!EER, The Art of Painting. Kunsthisrorisches Museum, Vienna.
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