Calvinism - pagina 227

CALVINISM AND ART. within which our Netherland language

from

223 is

excluded

our

privilege

of making their poetry a world

is

poetry

world at

the

have

confined,

This

large.

phenomenon,

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

la7igiiage for smaller nations is limited, the eye

and music heard by the ear

national,

is

is

inter-

understood

we may

in

every heart.

In

the

of Calvinism

upon the development and

we must

limit ourselves, in the inter-

influence

order,

the welfare of art, national arts,

sense,

to

therefore,

that

trace

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

of the Nations, and that only under the Cal-

life

vinistic influence did life

of the people.

they descend to the so

As

much

richer

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

Even your brokers have

some specimen of

ing

their

most

all

capital.

over the world are

eflectual

his

respect for an art-school

whose returns represent so vast a our days the masters

of every

vie with each other, to the

utmost, in their efforts to obtain

work.

art-

motives and

And even still

their

in

borrow-

best art-

demanded the world's new school of painting. Of

tendencies from what, at that time,

admiration as course

this

an entirely

does not say that

all

these painters were

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