Introduction
"The Learned Eye"
Thijs Weststeijn
"Biography of Ernst van de Wetering"
Thijs Weststeijn
Part I: The Work of Art
"In the Beginning There Was Red"
Karin Groen
"The Use of Wood in Rembrandt's Workshop. Wood Identification and Dendrochronological Analyses"
Peter Klein
"Rembrandt's Drawing The Raising of the Cross in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston"
Egbert Haverkamp Begemann
"The Portrait of Theodorus Schrevelius"
Martin Bijl
Part II: The Rules of Art
"The Contours in the Paintings of the Oranjezaal, Huis ten Bosch"
Margriet van Eikema Hommes
"Aelbert Cuyp's Innovative Use of Spatial Devices"
Anna Tummers
"Colour Symbolism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting"
Arthur Wheelock
"Rembrandt and Rhetoric. The Concepts of affectus, enargeia and ornatus in Samuel van Hoogstraten's Judgement of His Master"
Thijs Weststeijn
Part III: The Artist's Reputation
"'A Record and Memorial of his Talents for Posterity': Anthony van Dyck's Sketch of the Garter Procession"
Christopher Brown
"'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"
Madelon Simons
"Crossing the Wall of History. Etienne Delecluze on the Art and Morality of Jacques-Louis David"
Mariette Haveman
"Goltzius, Painting and Flesh; or, Why Goltzius Began to Paint in 1600"
Eric Jan Sluijter
Part IV: Painters, Patrons and Art-Lovers
"'Pour mon honneur et pour vostre contentement': Nicolas Poussin, Paul Freart de Chantelou and the Making and Collecting of Copies"
Michiel Franken
"Gerard de Lairesse and Jacob de Wit in situ"
Walter Liedtke
"'The Painter he findes at his Easill at worke'"
Henk van Os
Bibliography of Ernst van de Wetering
About the Authors
Index of Names