Calvinism - pagina 218

CALVINISM AND ART.

214 of maturity,

was but natural that those four powers

it

should encourage one another fiercely to

was

freedom

before

desist

resist,

nor to

Without

obtained.

this

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

Thanks

intolerable than beforehand.

was crowned

to this cooperation, the bold undertaking

and

enduring success,

with

— the rebel-

by

the combatants,

their

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

Will

and Religion,

enjoyment of maturity.

be

it

politics

on

fair

this

ground

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

I

may

loud

stimulated

so call

the

in

self

it

share of the victory, especially in

its

art

herself to

by her wonderful productions.

liberty if

readily grant that the Renaissance has

I

the

fundamental

an independent existence.

could the

laws

This by

church of those days did not art as such.

Renaissance,

On

of

which

art,

art justify her claim

not have achieved the desired

classical

the

Aesthetic genius,

and only by hailing again, amid

Greek genius had discovered, could to

her

had been implanted by God Him-

it,

Greek,

rejoicings,

vindicate

however

itself

liberation.

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 to

offer.

Renaissance,

In

the

so-called

Bramante and Da

Cinquecento,

or high-

Vinci, Michael

Angelo

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