Papers by Bram van Oostveldt
Drafts by Bram van Oostveldt
Edited volumes by Bram van Oostveldt
In this special issue of JHNA we ask ourselves how the sublime can function as a fruitful concept... more In this special issue of JHNA we ask ourselves how the sublime can function as a fruitful concept that allows us to gain more insight into the effect and agency of seventeenth-century art in the Netherlands. With the help of art theory, poetics, laudatory poems, fragments from diaries, biographical data, and theological concepts, the contributors show that by using different
theories of the sublime in analyzing specific works of art we can better understand their precise impact. With examples from divergent painterly genres, emblematic works, and spectacle the
authors point at the capacity of overwhelming art to accentuate the exceptional position of the artist, elevate the onlookers morally, or offer them ways to deal, in the secure space of the representation, with deep-rooted fears, divine magnanimity, and superhuman infinity.
Articles by Bram van Oostveldt
Special Issue The Sublime and Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Art, Jun 1, 2016
In this special issue of JHNA we ask ourselves how the sublime can function as a fruitful concept... more In this special issue of JHNA we ask ourselves how the sublime can function as a fruitful concept that allows us to gain more insight into the effect and agency of seventeenth-century art in the Netherlands. With the help of art theory, poetics, laudatory poems, fragments from diaries, biographical data, and theological concepts, the contributors show that by using different theories of the sublime in analyzing specific works of art we can better understand their precise impact. With examples from divergent painterly genres, emblematic works, and spectacle the authors point at the capacity of overwhelming art to accentuate the exceptional position of the artist, elevate the onlookers morally, or offer them ways to deal, in the secure space of the representation, with deep-rooted fears, divine magnanimity, and superhuman infinity.
Contributions to Volumes by Bram van Oostveldt
M. Sgarbi (ed.), Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy, Springer, 2018
In early modern thought, the sublime is a great or noble quality of literature or art, which is c... more In early modern thought, the sublime is a great or noble quality of literature or art, which is characterized by an irresistible and overwhelming effect and which produces strong and often conflicting emotions such as awe, fear, and admiration in its recipients. From the mid-sixteenth century onwards, a growing interest in Pseudo-Longinus' Greek treatise Peri hypsous (On the Sublime) emerged throughout Europe. The sublime as described by Longinus had an inherently dual nature: it could be seen as a type of style with corresponding stylistic devices and prescripts, as well as a ravishing and transporting effect, which emerges from genius and defies the rules of style. In the course of the seventeenth century, the latter interpretation of the Longinian sublime gained the upper hand and fuelled debates on the effects of literature, and later also of art, architecture, music, and spectacle. Besides Longinus' theory of sublimity, the early modern sublime was also shaped by the religious notion of sacer horror, the natural philosophy of Lucretius and Pascal's idea of infinity, and operated in a web of neighboring concepts such as magnificence, le merveilleux, la meraviglia, and le je ne sais quoi.
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Papers by Bram van Oostveldt
Drafts by Bram van Oostveldt
Edited volumes by Bram van Oostveldt
theories of the sublime in analyzing specific works of art we can better understand their precise impact. With examples from divergent painterly genres, emblematic works, and spectacle the
authors point at the capacity of overwhelming art to accentuate the exceptional position of the artist, elevate the onlookers morally, or offer them ways to deal, in the secure space of the representation, with deep-rooted fears, divine magnanimity, and superhuman infinity.
Articles by Bram van Oostveldt
Contributions to Volumes by Bram van Oostveldt
theories of the sublime in analyzing specific works of art we can better understand their precise impact. With examples from divergent painterly genres, emblematic works, and spectacle the
authors point at the capacity of overwhelming art to accentuate the exceptional position of the artist, elevate the onlookers morally, or offer them ways to deal, in the secure space of the representation, with deep-rooted fears, divine magnanimity, and superhuman infinity.