Calvinism - pagina 226

CALVINISM AND ART.

222

where quarries

countries

those

in

country such

can

a

Poetry, music, and painting,

be considered here, as the three

alone

that are most independent of

free arts

in

where the ground

Netherlands,

and mire.

consists of clay

therefore,

the

as

abound, than

natural data.

all

This does not imply that the Flemish and Dutch hall fails to hold a position of

honor

all its

city-

own among

Louvain and Middleburg,

the creations of architecture.

Antwerp and Amsterdam still bear witness to what Dutch art wrought in stone. And he who has seen the statues in Antwerp and at the tomb of William the Silent, carved by Ouellinus and by De Keyzers, does not question the ability of our

But

this

our

City-Hall was

subject

is

the

to

found

artists of the chisel.

objection that the style of

its

appearance in the Netherlands, and

its

later

development,

it

made

long before Calvinism

even

that,

in

exhibits no single feature that

By

can remind one of Calvinism.

virtue of

its

principle

Calvinism built no cathedrals, no palaces and no am-

and was

phitheatres,

niches

unable

populate

to

the vacant

with sculptured or-

of these gigantic buildings

naments. Indeed, the merits of Calvinism, with respect to

are to be exclusively

Not

found elsewhere. in

the

more

in the objective,

the

marble quarry, have their spontaneous

human mind.

mention,

should

our

in

have

this

to

own Dutch

but

subjective arts which, not de-

pending upon the patronage of wealth and not of the

art,

Of poetry

I

disclose

to

Litterature,

you for

want

rise in

can make no further

To

connection.

in

that

the

purpose treasures

the narrow

I

of

bounds

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