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| Dirck van Delen Iconoclasm in a church 1630 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
"As contrasted with architecture and sculpture, painting, we may say, makes us once again feel at home with ourselves, since its principle of finite and yet inherently infinite subjectivity is the principle of our very own life and existence . . . The principle of painting, as distinct from the principles of the other arts, is the determinant factor here. We have said before that painting must take for its content primarily that which, as contrasted with sculpture on one side and music and poetry on the other, it is best able to express in external form. This, as we have seen, is that characteristically romantic self-concentration of spirit which must remain forever inaccessible to sculpture and for which music and poetry (though they too take it for their content) can no longer provide a visually objective corporeal image. According to its own principle and concept, in other words, painting holds the middle ground between the three-dimensional arts of architecture and sculpture and the spatially dimensionless arts of music and poetry."
– from Aesthetics, or, The Philosophy of Fine Art by G.W.F. Hegel (posthumously published during the 1830s), translated by Henry Paolucci
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| Dirck van Delen Five ladies in an interior ca. 1630-52 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Rembrandt A musical company 1626 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| David Teniers Scene in a tavern 1640 oil on panel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| David Teniers Smokers in a tavern 1644 oil on panel private collection |
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| David Teniers Smokers in an interior ca. 1637 oil on panel Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Jan Miense Molenaer Woman at the virginal ca. 1630-40 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Gerard ter Borch Woman playing a theorbo-lute, with cavalier ca. 1658 oil on panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Mozes van Wtenbrouck Finding of Moses ca. 1625-27 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Marten Ryckaert Landscape with a farm 1627 oil on panel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Sebastian Vrancx Harvest before 1610 oil on panel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Isaak van den Blocke Visitation before 1626 oil on panel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Gerrit Dou Portrait of a couple in a landscape before 1675 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Aert Jansz Marienhof Artist in a studio 1648 oil on panel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |