The Story of Dutch Painting

The Story of Dutch Painting

BY CHARLES H. CAFFIN AUTHOR OF HOW TO STUDY PICTURES, ETC. NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1911 {iv} Copyright, 1909, by The Century Co. Published November, 1909 THE DE VINNE PRESS {v} TO THE PRESENT AND FUTURE ART OF THE NEW REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THIS STORY OF THE ART OF THE OLD DUTCH REPUBLIC IS DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR New York, November, 1909 ON the 25th of October, 1555, Charles V abdicated the imperial crown, ceding Spain and the Netherlands to his favorite son, Philip II. The event proved to be the prologue of a drama, which in its immediate aspects involved the decay of Spain and the growth of Holland, but in its wider significance was to be the beginning of a new era. For the modern world dates from the seventeenth century, and its pioneers were the Hollanders of that period. Practically everything that we recognize to-day as characteristic of the modern spirit in politics, religion, science, society, industry, commerce, and art has its prototype amid that sturdy people; being either the cause or the product of their struggle for independence and their self-development. Nor, in paying honor to the Dutch, need we attempt to suggest that they were the inventors of these characteristics. Most of the latter were, so to say, in the air. In the progress of things they{4} had been evolved. But our debt to the Hollanders is that they attracted them and gave them practical application, and thus set the world upon a definite path of new progress. It is particularly with the newness of their art that we are here concerned, but we will try to study it in its relation to the material and mental environment of the nation itself, of whose newness it was so immediate a product and so manifest an expression. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 59473
Author: Caffin, Charles H. (Charles Henry)
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English