The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century
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The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century

by Svetlana Alpers

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An influential analysis of seventeenth-century Dutch art that considers how artists represented the visible world and shaped new forms of visual knowledge.

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This book examines the distinctive visual culture of the Dutch Republic during the seventeenth century.

It explores how artists and viewers understood images in relation to knowledge, description, and observation.

The study situates Dutch art within broader intellectual and cultural developments of the period.

Attention is given to the relationship between artistic practice and contemporary ways of perceiving the world.

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