Dutch culture in the Golden Age by Price, J. L.

Table of Contents: “…Context -- Structures and change -- The shape of Dutch culture -- Painting and graphic art -- Literature -- Humanism and the reptile of letters -- Science and technology -- God and truth -- The culture of politics -- The influence of the Dutch Golden Age -- The waning of the Golden Age.…”
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Dutch culture in the Golden Age by Price, J. L.

Table of Contents: “…Context -- Structures and change -- The shape of Dutch culture -- Painting and graphic art -- Literature -- Humanism and the reptile of letters -- Science and technology -- God and truth -- The culture of politics -- The influence of the Dutch Golden Age -- The waning of the Golden Age.…”
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Diotima's children German aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing / by Beiser, Frederick C., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Hyde -- The poets' war -- Leipzig versus Zurich -- Misreadings of the dispute -- The point in dispute -- Baumgarten's science of aesthetics -- The father of aesthetics -- A philosophical poetics -- A science of beauty -- Theory of sensation -- Analysis of beauty -- Status of aesthetics -- An ambiguous legacy -- Winckelmann and neo-classicism -- Winckelmann as philosopher -- Historical influence -- Imitating the ancients -- A neo-classical aesthetic -- Ancients versus moderns -- Aesthetic theory -- Painting and allegory -- Eros and Dionysus -- Mendelssohn's defense of reason -- The guardian of Enlightenment -- The analysis of sensation -- The grin of Silenus -- Second thoughts -- Taming the sublime -- Reckoning with Burke -- Encounter with Jean-Jacques -- The claims of genius -- First clash with Hamann -- Abelard and Fulbert's brief spat -- The three-faculty theory -- Lessing and the Reformation of aesthetic rationalism -- Lessing and the rationalist tradition -- Genius and rules -- The irrationality of genius -- Rationalism and sentimentalism in Lessing's ethics -- Laokoon : thesis and inductive argument -- Laokoon : the deductive argument -- Laokoon : its hidden agenda.…”
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The madness of vision on baroque aesthetics / by Buci-Glucksmann, Christine

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Diotima's children German aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing / by Beiser, Frederick C., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Hyde -- The poets' war -- Leipzig versus Zurich -- Misreadings of the dispute -- The point in dispute -- Baumgarten's science of aesthetics -- The father of aesthetics -- A philosophical poetics -- A science of beauty -- Theory of sensation -- Analysis of beauty -- Status of aesthetics -- An ambiguous legacy -- Winckelmann and neo-classicism -- Winckelmann as philosopher -- Historical influence -- Imitating the ancients -- A neo-classical aesthetic -- Ancients versus moderns -- Aesthetic theory -- Painting and allegory -- Eros and Dionysus -- Mendelssohn's defense of reason -- The guardian of Enlightenment -- The analysis of sensation -- The grin of Silenus -- Second thoughts -- Taming the sublime -- Reckoning with Burke -- Encounter with Jean-Jacques -- The claims of genius -- First clash with Hamann -- Abelard and Fulbert's brief spat -- The three-faculty theory -- Lessing and the Reformation of aesthetic rationalism -- Lessing and the rationalist tradition -- Genius and rules -- The irrationality of genius -- Rationalism and sentimentalism in Lessing's ethics -- Laokoon : thesis and inductive argument -- Laokoon : the deductive argument -- Laokoon : its hidden agenda.…”
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The madness of vision on baroque aesthetics / by Buci-Glucksmann, Christine

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Signs of power in Habsburg Spain and the New World

Table of Contents: “…C�ardenas Bunsen -- The politics of salvation in El Greco's Escorial paintings and Cervantes's La numancia / E.C. Graf -- Spain succored by religion : Titian and Lope de Vega's La dragontea / Jason McCloskey.…”
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Signs of power in Habsburg Spain and the New World

Table of Contents: “…C�ardenas Bunsen -- The politics of salvation in El Greco's Escorial paintings and Cervantes's La numancia / E.C. Graf -- Spain succored by religion : Titian and Lope de Vega's La dragontea / Jason McCloskey.…”
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Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama : Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion / by Porter, Chloe

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Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama : Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion / by Porter, Chloe

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Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam / by Montias, John Michael, 1928-2005

Table of Contents: “…-- Attributions -- Echoes -- Concluding Words on Auctions -- Profiles of Selected Buyers -- Art Dealers I: Artists and Merchants in the Trade -- Art Dealers II: Johannes de Renialme -- Art Dealers III: The Story of a Merchant Who Thought He Could Sell Paintings to a King -- Art Collectors and Painters I: Rubens's Promise to Hans Thijsz -- Art Collectors and Painters II: Jacob Swalmius and Rembrandt -- Art Collectors and Painters III: Marten van den Broeck and Rembrandt's Losses at Sea -- Art Collectors and Painters IV: Jan van Maerlen and His Extended Family -- Art Collectors and Painters V: Jean le Bleu, Francois Venant and Rembrandt's "Feast of Belshazzar" -- A Collector with Connections to Major Cultural Figures: Robbert van der Hoeve and the "Muiden Circle" -- What Santa Claus Brought to the Youth of Amsterdam -- When Sellers and Buyers Were Related: Elbert and Cornelis Symonsz. …”
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Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam / by Montias, John Michael, 1928-2005

Table of Contents: “…-- Attributions -- Echoes -- Concluding Words on Auctions -- Profiles of Selected Buyers -- Art Dealers I: Artists and Merchants in the Trade -- Art Dealers II: Johannes de Renialme -- Art Dealers III: The Story of a Merchant Who Thought He Could Sell Paintings to a King -- Art Collectors and Painters I: Rubens's Promise to Hans Thijsz -- Art Collectors and Painters II: Jacob Swalmius and Rembrandt -- Art Collectors and Painters III: Marten van den Broeck and Rembrandt's Losses at Sea -- Art Collectors and Painters IV: Jan van Maerlen and His Extended Family -- Art Collectors and Painters V: Jean le Bleu, Francois Venant and Rembrandt's "Feast of Belshazzar" -- A Collector with Connections to Major Cultural Figures: Robbert van der Hoeve and the "Muiden Circle" -- What Santa Claus Brought to the Youth of Amsterdam -- When Sellers and Buyers Were Related: Elbert and Cornelis Symonsz. …”
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Temptation in the Archives : Essays in Golden Age Dutch Culture / by Jardine, Lisa

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Temptation in the Archives : Essays in Golden Age Dutch Culture / by Jardine, Lisa

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Sex and Drugs before Rock 'n' Roll : Youth Culture and Masculinity during Holland's Golden Age / by Roberts, Benjamin, 1965-

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Sex and Drugs before Rock 'n' Roll : Youth Culture and Masculinity during Holland's Golden Age / by Roberts, Benjamin, 1965-

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