Full online 58+ page Dutch text jpg publication of this 1642 Leiden treatise on the Art of Dutch painting by the painter Phlips Angel.
Another full text book is at http://www.library.uu.nl/digiboeken/weyerman/weyerman.html
Go to the title page intro1, intro2, intro3, text pages 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58.
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Phlips Angel or Philips Angel, Lof der Schilder-konst, Leiden 1642. A facsimile of this treatise was printed in 1969 by Davaco Publishers and in 1972 another facsimile xerox edition was issued by The Kunsthistorisch Instituut, Universiteit van Amsterdam. A complete English translation can be found in the art history magazine Simiolus 24 (1996), 227-258. Full jpg images of the full Dutch text are available online on this web site.
This page forms part of a large encyclopedic site on Vermeer and Delft. Research by Drs. Kees Kaldenbach (email). A full presentation is on view at johannesvermeer.info.
Launched December, 2002; Last update March 2, 2017.
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