03 — ARTWORK
Man Looking through a Window
HOOGSTRATEN, Samuel van · 1653 →
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas, 111 x 87 cm
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COMMENTARY
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Samuel van Hoogstraten was active as a painter in several different genres, and also an engraver and writer. In his treatise of 1678 he explained the importance of illusionismThe painting techniques that create the realistic impression of solid, three-dimensional objects (such as picture frames, architectural features, plasterwork etc.) in painting and the need for perspectiveThe method of representing three-dimensional objects on a flat surface. Perspective gives a picture a sense of depth. The most important form of perspective in the Renaissance was linear perspective (first formulated by the architect Brunelleschi in the early 15th century), in which the real or suggested lines of objects converge on a vanishing point on the horizon, often in the middle of the composition (centralized perspective). The first artist to make a systematic use of linear perspective was Masaccio, and its principles were set out by the architect Alberti in a book published in 1436. The use of linear perspective had a profound effect on the development of Western art and remained unchallenged until the 20th century. in the fine arts. He himself frequently practiced these skills and became one of the most important seventeenth-century creators of trompe-l'oeil paintings and perspective boxes. The eye-fooling artistry of trompe-l'oeil was extremely popular at the courts of Europe in the seventeenth century. The present painting was specially made for the emperor Ferdinand III during Van Hoogstraten's four-year stay in Vienna.
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