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

ISBN-13: 9781032375878 / Twarda / 2023 / 248 str.

Belgium) Van Oostveldt Bram (Ghent University

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1  1. Hupsos: Franciscus Junius and the Reception of On the Sublime  2. Sublimis and le merveilleux: Dramatizing, Performing, and Picturing Phaethon’s Fall  Part 2  3. Vreese Godts: The Sublime and the Disappearance of God  4. Sublime Landscapes and Seascapes  Part 3  5. Magnificence: The Politics of Architecture  6. The Medusean Gaze: Terror and the Sublime  7. Wonder by Touch  Conclusion

O autorze

Stijn P.M. Bussels is Professor of Art History and Head of the Department of Art History at Leiden University Centre of the Arts in Society.

Bram Van Oostveldt is Associate Professor at the Department of Art, Music and Theatre Studies at Ghent University.