Calvinism a life-system - pagina 227

CALVINISM AND ART. within which our Netherland language

from

22$ is

have

confined,

This

world at large.

excluded

our

privilege

of making their poetry a world phenomenon,

is

poetry

the

only reserved for those larger nations, whose language,

being spoken by millions and millions, becomes a vehicle international

for

But

intercourse.

if

the

province of

lajigiiage for smaller nations is limited, the eye

and music heard by the ear

national,

every the

In

heart.

influence

order,

arts,

trace

of Calvinism

upon the development and

we must

limit ourselves, in the inter-

the welfare of art, national

inter-

we may

that

therefore,

is

understood in

is

sense,

to

the two subjective and independent

those of painting and music.

Now

of both these arts

it

is

to

be stated

that, before

the days of Calvinism, they soared high above the com-

mon life

and that only under the Cal-

hfe of the Nations,

vinistic influence did

of the people.

they descend to the so much richer

As

regards painting, just recall the

productions of Dutch art by brush and etching-needle in the is

here

1

6th and 17th centuries. sufficient

to

summon

Rembrandt's name alone

The museums

treasures before your mind's eye.

country and continent

still

whole world of

a

vie with each other, to the

some specimen of

utmost, in their efforts to obtain

work.

Even your brokers have

ing their

most

all

capital.

over the world are

effectual

his

respect for an art- school

whose returns represent so vast a our days the masters

art-

of every

motives and

And still

their

even in

borrow-

best

art-

tendencies from what, at that time, demanded the world's admiration as an entirely new school of painting. Of

course

this

does not say that

all

these painters were

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