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oapen-20.500.12657-770392023-11-15T09:17:26Z The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic Bussels, Stijn Van Oostveldt, Bram 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 bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AC History of art / art & design styles 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. 2023-10-30T11:02:51Z 2023-10-30T11:02:51Z 2024 book 9781032375878 9781003340942 9781032375885 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/77039 eng Routledge Research in Art History application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781003803270.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003340942 10.4324/9781003340942 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 32a1d663-5833-4d1b-b1e6-4e191fb5c230 9781032375878 9781003340942 9781032375885 Routledge 208 Universiteit Gent Ghent University open access
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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 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.
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