Calvinism a life-system - pagina 218

CALVINISM AND ART.

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was but natural that those four powers should encourage one another fiercely to resist, nor to was obtained. Without this desist before freedom of maturity,

it

quadruple alliance not only would the tutelage of the

church have persevered over

—

once crushed

lion

more grievous and

all

rule

its

Europe, but

would have become even

enduring

Thanks

intolerable than beforehand.

to this cooperation, the bold undertaking

with

— the rebel-

and

success,

was crowned

the combatants, by their

combined energy, earned the everlasting glory of having brought art and science, as well as politics and Religion, to the full

Will

it

enjoyment of maturity.

be

fair

on

ground

this

to assert that Calvinism

has freed Religion, and not Art, and that the honours

emancipation of art belong exclusively to the

of the

Renaissance ? a

right to claim

so

as

far

it

grant that the Renaissance has

I readily its

share of the victory, especially in

stimulated

by her wonderful

liberty

art

herself to

vindicate her

Aesthetic genius,

productions.

had been implanted by God HimI self in the Greek, and only by hailing again, amid loud rejoicings, the fundamental laws of art, which

may

if

so call

it,

Greek genius had discovered, could to

could the

not have achieved

the

desired

church of those days did not

classical

art as such.

the Renaissance,

On

art justify her claim

This by

an independent existence.

however

itself

Hberation.

in the least

For

oppose

the contrary, she welcomed

and Christian

art

did not hesitate a

moment

to enrich herself with the best the Renaissance

had

offer.

to

Renaissance,

In

the so-called

Bramante and Da

Cinqttecento,

or high-

Vinci, Michael

Angelo

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