The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic
- 200 pages
- English
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The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic
About this book
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 different visualizations of exceptional heights, divine presence, political grandeur, extreme violence, and extraordinary artifacts, the authors demonstrate how viewers were confronted with the sublime, which evoked in them a combination of contrasting feelings of awe and fear, attraction and repulsion. In studying seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture through the lens of notions of the sublime, we can move beyond the traditional and still widespread views on Dutch art as the ultimate representation of everyday life and the expression of a prosperous society in terms of calmness, neatness, and order.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, architectural history, and cultural history.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0) 4.0 International license. Funded by Ghent University.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Hupsos: Franciscus Junius and the Reception of On the Sublime
- 2 Sublimis and Le Merveilleux: Dramatizing, Performing, and Picturing Phaethon's Fall
- 3 Vreese Godts: Divine Sublimity and the Invisibility of God
- 4 Sublime Landscapes and Seascapes
- 5 Magnificence and the Politics of Architecture
- 6 The Medusean Gaze: Terror and the Sublime
- 7 Wonder by Touch
- 8 Conclusion
- Index