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

• Hoofdauteur: Bussels, Stijn (auth)
• Andere auteurs: Van Oostveldt, Bram (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Taylor & Francis 2024
• Reeks: Routledge Research in Art History
• Onderwerpen: 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
• Online toegang: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...