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Discussions on Naturalism in the Dutch Golden Age. Junius and Vondel
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Lady Pictura and Lady Rhetorica in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Antwerp. Upgrading Painting and Rhetorijcke by Linking Them to the Liberal Arts
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Monumentalising burghers of the Low Countries: living statues in the Late Medieval and Early Modern joyous entries
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Theories of the Sublime in the Dutch Golden Age: Franciscus Junius, Joost van den Vondel and Petrus Wittewrongel
Full text linkThis article explores how writers from the Dutch Golden Age thought about human contact with that which is elevated far above everyday life. The Dutch Republic offers an interesting context because of the strikingly early use there by seventeenth-century humanists of the Greek concept ὕψος, from (pseudo-)Longinus, to discuss how writers, artists and their audiences were able to surpass human limitations thanks to an intense imagination which transported them to supreme heights. Dutch poets also used the Latin sublimis to discuss how mankind constantly aims at that which is far above it, but, despite this, can never entirely be a part of it. Thirdly, protestant writers discuss the concept of the Fear of God by explaining that elevated contact with God should be accompanied by the contrasting emotions of attraction and fear. With reference to the humanist Franciscus Junius, poet Joost van den Vondel and preacher Petrus Wittewrongel, I will discuss how these artistic, literary and religious discourses concerning contact with the sublime are related to one another.Medieval and Early Modern Studie
The Wondrous Town Hall of Amsterdam: Laudatory Poems on the Impact of Art and Architecture
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