Calvinism a life-system - pagina 228

CALVINISM AND ART.

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personally staunch Calvinists.

In the earlier art-school,

which

influence

under

flourished

"bon CathoHques"

the

were also

very

Rome

of

Such

rare.

the

influ-

ences do not operate personally, but put their impress

upon surroundings and perceptions, as

society,

upon and

representations

of

world

the

of

of thought; and

a result of these various impressions an art-school

makes

And, taken in this sense, the antithesis between the past and the present in the school of Dutch art is unmistakable. Before this period, no account was taken of the people they pnly were considered worthy of notice who were superior to the appearance.

its

;

common man,

vis.,

the high world of the church and

of the priests, of knights and princes. the people had

come of

But, since then,

and under the auspices of

age,

Calvinism, the art of painting, prophetic of a democratic life

of later times, was the

The

maturity.

and asserted

church,

significance.

the

that

family

By

the

common

place like a

the

life

and of an

new

life

to proclaim the people's to

be an annex to the

standing in

the light of

been overshadowed for tions,

ceased its

non-churchly

importance

first

common

its

independent

grace

it

was seen

was also possessed of high

all-sided

Having

art-motive.

many centuries by class-distincman came out of its hiding-

of

world, in

broad emancipation

all

its

of our

sober

reality.

It

ordinary earthly

was life,

and the instinct for liberty, which thereby captured the heart of the nations and inspired

them with

delight in

the enjoyment of treasures so long blindly neglected.

Even Taine has sounded the which

went forth from the

praises

of the blessing,

Calvinistic love of liberty

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