Preface
Approaches to a Multifaceted Master
Prolog
Samuel van Hoogstraten and the Golden Age of Dutch Art, Literature, and Science: The Present Book and Future Research
Van Hoogstraten’s Theory of Theory of Art
Jan Blanc
Paradoxical Passages: The Work of Framing in the Art of Samuel van Hoogstraten
Celeste Brusati
The Young Samuel van Hoogstraten, Corrected by Rembrandt
Ben Broos
“Zwierich van sprong”: Samuel van Hoogstraten’s Night Watch
Paul Taylor
Samuel van Hoogstraten’s Personal Letter-Rack Paintings: Tributes with a Message
Michiel Roscam Abbing
A Pledge of Marital Domestic Bliss: Samuel van Hoogstraten’s Perspective Box in the National Gallery, London
Kerman Colenbrander
Van Hoogstraten’s Success in Britain
Fatma Yalcin
Samuel van Hoogstraten, the First Dutch Novelist?
Thijs Weststeijn
Great Respect and Complete Bafflement: Arnold Houbraken’s Mixed Opinion of Samuel van Hoogstraten
Hendrik J. Horn
Appendix
Arnold Houbraken’s references to Samuel van Hoogstraten and his ‘Introduction to the Academy of Painting’
Edited and Translated by Hendrik J. Horn
Bibliography
List of Illustrations
About the authors
Index