The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic

• Main Author: Bussels, Stijn (auth)
• Other Authors: Van Oostveldt, Bram (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2024
• Series: Routledge Research in Art History
• Subjects: History of art / art & design styles; Aelbert Cuyp;Amsterdam;architecture;artist;art history;attraction;awe;Christianity;drawing;Franciscus Junius;God;horror;humanism;humanist;Jacob van Campen;Longinus;landscape;Netherlands;Phaethon;painting;politics;prints;Rembrandt;Rubens;religion;sculpture;seascape;terror;theater;theatre
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Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as "being of an orderly and diligent position" and thus having no feeling for the sublime, this book argues that the sublime played an important role in seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture. By looking at differ...