ABSTRACT
‘[One can] succinctly but tellingly describe painting, the education of the eyes, the full sister of poetry, as the art of seeing. I truly regard those who are not adept in this scarcely as complete persons. I call them blind people, who look no differently at the sky, the sea or the earth than do their cattle that they let graze with their heads down. They look at those things without seeing them.’ Constantijn Huygens, De vita propria
