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point A. minute part or particle XIII; small mark, dot; precise position, time, fact, or quality XIV;
B. sharp end XIV. In A — (O)F.
point, in B — (O)F.
pointe, repr. respectively L.
punctum, sb. use of n. pp. of
pungere prick, pierce, and Rom. (medL.)
puncta, corr. use of the fem pp.
So
point vb. XIV. Partly — (O)F.
pointer, partly f. the sb.; hence
pointer in techn. uses from
c. 1500; rod to point with XVII; dog that indicates position of game XVIII. Comp.
point-blank direct (horizontal) aim or range; also adj. and adv. XVI. of unkn. orig., but presumed to involve the sb.
blank ‘white spot in a target’.
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Games of illusion and reality
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 2/5/2000; ; 700+ words
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Exhiben obras de arte pioneras.(Cultura)
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; ...holands Rembrandt como Ferdinand Bol, Jan Victors, Samuel van Hoogstraten y Arent de Gelder, forman parte del grupo de creadores...artistas como Nicolas Maes, Roelant Savery, Hubert van Raves, Abragan van Calraet -de quien se presenta el paisaje Vista...
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LOOKING FOR THE REAL REMBRANDTS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/5/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...opinion from Rutgers professor John van Dyke in the 1920s -- to nearly...Rijksmuseum general director Henk van Os. Only then did the world wake...paintings -- by such artists as Samuel van Hoogstraten, Gerrit Dou an
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Learning from the master.(Rembrandt)(Biography)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...and what did his pupils think of him? One student, Samuel van Hoogstraten, commented on his time with Rembrandt a decade after...teacher, but he certainly inspired hard work. Young Samuel and many of his fellow students became successful...
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Hendrick Goltzius and mannerism.
Magazine article from: The Nation; 2/10/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...though it will be universally acknowledged that Gerrit van Honthorst's Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane-or a self-portrait by Samuel van Hoogstraten-hardly carries the rhetorical charge of ceremonial...
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What not Rembrandt? (exhibition of his works at Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 12/7/1991; 700+ words
; ...attributed respectively to Willem Drost, Gerrit Dou and Samuel van Hoogstraten, all students of the master. Although the paintings...Etchings." By Christopher Brown, jan Kelch and Pieter van Thiel (paintings); Holm Bevers, Peter Schatborn...
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Arts: An old master's engraved new world or Rembrandt wasn't the first artist to realise how prints could spread his fame abroad more easily than paintings. But he was the first to become fascinated by, and deeply involved in, the process, says Michael Glover
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/13/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...helped to spread his fame far and wide. As his pupil Samuel van Hoogstraten once wrote: "Get your works out as prints, and your...them, especially ones by the likes of Durer and Lucas van Leyden. By the 1640s he was spending a great deal of...
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Exhibitions: Miller, Miller on the wall On Reflection National Gallery, WC2
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/27/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...works of the highest order: Velsquez's Rokeby Venus, Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait, Rembrandt's Woman Bathing...are Parmigianino's Mystic Marriage of St Catherine, Samuel van Hoogstraten's popular peep- show box, Velsquez's early Kitchen...
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Report from Europe; Hungarian culture in London.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...attribution whenever the subject turns to Rembrandt van Rijn. Is it a Rembrandt, a school of Rembrandt, a...with him. They include Gerrit Dou, Ferdinand Bol, Samuel van Hoogstraten, and Nicolaes Maes. Each of the three Russian canvases...
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EXHIBIT ASKS: IS IT REALLY A REMBRANDT?
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/27/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...is now believed to be the work of Rembrandt's pupil Samuel van Hoogstraten. Happily, the one Boston painting contributed to the...very difficult to see these museums," said Pieter Van Thiel, curator of paintings at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam...
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Samuel van Hoogstraten
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Samuel van Hoogstraten , 1627-78, Dutch portrait painter and etcher, studied with his father, Dirk van Hoogstraten (1596-1640), and with Rembrandt. His best works, such as The...
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Hoogstraten, Samuel van
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Hoogstraten, Samuel van ( b Dordrecht, 2 Aug. 1627; d Dordrecht, 19 Oct. 1678). Dutch...early works can it be detected that he was a pupil of Rembrandt . Hoogstraten visited London, Rome, and Vienna, worked in Amsterdam and The...
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Rembrandt
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn ) ( b Leiden, 15...mediocre local painter Jacob van Swanenburgh , with whom...and perhaps with Joris van Schooten (1587–...received by contemporaries. Samuel van Hoogstraten , for example, wrote...
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peep-show box
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...had their greatest popularity in 17th-century Holland. Six examples survive from this time, three of them by Samuel van Hoogstraten (the best, c. 1655–60, is in the NG, London).
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