Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Introduction 9
4. The Learned Eye 9
5. Biography of Ernst van de Wetering 13
6. Part I. The Work of Art
7. In the Beginning There Was Red 18
8. The Use of Wood in Rembrandt’s Workshop. Wood Identification and Dendrochronological Analyses 28
9. Rembrandt's Drawing The Raising of the Cross in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 39
10. The Portrait of Theodorus Schrevelius 47
11. Part II. The Rules of Art
12. The Contours in the Paintings of the Oranjezaal, Huis ten Bosch 59
13. Aelbert Cuyp’s Innovative Use of Spatial Devices 87
14. Colour Symbolism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting 99
15. Rembrandt and Rhetoric. The Concepts of affectus, enargeia and ornatus in Samuel van Hoogstraten’s Judgement of His Master 111
16. Part III. The Artist’s Reputation
17. ‘A Record and Memorial of his Talents for Posterity’: Anthony van Dyck’s Sketch of the Garter Procession 133
18. ‘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 140
19. Crossing the Wall of History. Etienne Delécluze on the Art and Morality of Jacques-Louis David 151
20. Goltzius, Painting and Flesh; or, Why Goltzius Began to Paint in 1600 158
21. Part IV. Painters, Patrons and Art-Lovers
22. ‘Pour mon honneur et pour vostre contentement’: Nicolas Poussin, Paul Fréart de Chantelou and the Making and Collecting of Copies 181
23. Gerard de Lairesse and Jacob de Wit in situ 190
24. ‘The Painter he findes at his Easill at worke’ 206
25. Bibliography of Ernst van de Wetering 214
26. About the Authors 222
27. Index of Names 225