Calvinism - pagina 230

CALVINISM AND ART.

226 to

understand, that there was a mystical suffering also

in

the general

woe

ummea-

of man, revealing hitherto

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

sured depths of the us

to

the mysterious agonies of Golgotha.

no longer restrained the chained him in

mingling

freely

and behind

their

artist,

power

and princely gold no longer he also was man,

If artist,

fetters.

its

Ecclesiastical

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

what palace and castle had hitherto afforded him, something,

much more valuable than the keenest eye had ever surmised. As Taine so significantly says To Rembrandt, human life hid its face behind many which proved

too,

be

to

:

sombre hues, but even that

was profoundly

life

grasp upon

in that chiaroscuro his

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 avv^akened

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

covered world, the

rich

content

of this

Dutch school of

newly

dis-

produced

art has

upon the canvass those wondrous art-productions which 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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