Calvinism a life-system - pagina 230

CALVINISM AND ART.

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to understand, that there

woe

was a mystical suffering also

ummeahuman heart, and thereby enabling fathom much better the still deeper depths of

the general

in

of man, revealing hitherto

sured depths of the us

to

the mysterious agonies of Golgotha.

no longer restrained the chained him in

minghng

among the people, and discovering in human life, something quite different from

freely

and behind

he also was man,

If artist,

fetters.

its

power

Ecclesiastical

and princely gold no longer

artist,

their

what palace and castle had hitherto afforded him,something, which proved to be much more valuable than the

too,

As Taine

keenest eye had ever surmised. says:

To Rembrandt, human

sombre hues, but even that

in that

was profoundly

life

life

hid

its

so significantly

face

behind

many

chiaroscuro his grasp upon

real

and

As

significant.

the

result therefore of the declaration of the people's maturity

and of the love of the

in

human

heart

of the

liberty

which Calvinism awakened

nations,

the

commun

hfe disclosed to art an entirely

but

rich

new world, and,

by opening the eye for the small and the insignificant, and by opening the heart for the sorrows of mankind,

from the

rich

content

of this

newly

dis-

Dutch school of art has produced upon the canvass those wondrous art-productions which covered world, the

still

immortalize

way

to all the nations for

its

fame,

and which have shown the

new

conquests.

Finally, as to the significance Calvinism

we

face

known,

one of is

its

excellencies which,

had

though

notwithstanding highly important

for Music, less

—

Douen taught us, ten years ago, in his two umes on Marot. Music and painting here run

widely

as

Mr.

big volparallel.

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