'The Learned Eye. Regarding Art, Theory, and the Artist's Reputation. Essays for Ernst van de Wetering'

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Table of Contents - 6 Introduction - 10 The Learned Eye - 10 Biography of Ernst van de Wetering - 14 Part I: The Work of Art - 18 In the Beginning There Was Red - 19 The Use of Wood in Rembrandt's Workshop. Wood Identification and Dendrochronological Analyses - 29 Rembrandt's Drawing The Raising of the Cross in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - 40 The Portrait of Theodorus Schrevelius - 48 Part II: The Rules of Art - 58 The Contours in the Paintings of the Oranjezaal, Huis ten Bosch - 60 Aelbert Cuyp's Innovative Use of Spatial Devices - 88 Colour Symbolism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting - 100 Rembrandt and Rhetoric. The Concepts of affectus, enargeia and ornatus in Samuel van Hoogstraten's Judgement of His Master - 112 Part III: The Artist's Reputation - 132 'A Record and Memorial of his Talents for Posterity': Anthony van Dyck's Sketch of the Garter Procession - 134 'Das Werk erdacht und cirkulirt'. The Position of Architects at the Court of King Ferdinand I of Bohemia and His Son, Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria - 141 Crossing the Wall of History. Etienne Delecluze on the Art and Morality of Jacques-Louis David - 152 Goltzius, Painting and Flesh or, Why Goltzius Began to Paint in 1600 - 159 Part IV: Painters, Patrons and Art-Lovers - 180 'Pour mon honneur et pour vostre contentement': Nicolas Poussin, Paul Freart de Chantelou and the Making and Collecting of Copies - 182 Gerard de Lairesse and Jacob de Wit in situ - 191 'The Painter he findes at his Easill at worke' - 207 Bibliography of Ernst van de Wetering - 215 About the Authors - 223 Index of Names - 226

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