. Art thoughts : the experiences and observations of an American amateur in Europe. CHAPTEE VII. THE ART OP HOLLAND, BELGIUM, SPAIN, AND ^E have noticed how the invention of printing andLuthers Reformation displaced relisf- „ . ^. T 1 Printing drS lous art. Words displaced symbols, and places reiig-book-discussion supplanted fresco-paint-ing. Thenceforth, images of divine things ceasedto be made by hands, but were formed in the mind and conveyedfrom one to another as intangible thought, to take shape andcolor according to idiosyncrasies of imagination. Printed booksin consequence bec
. Art thoughts : the experiences and observations of an American amateur in Europe. CHAPTEE VII. THE ART OP HOLLAND, BELGIUM, SPAIN, AND ^E have noticed how the invention of printing andLuthers Reformation displaced relisf- „ . ^. T 1 Printing drS lous art. Words displaced symbols, and places reiig-book-discussion supplanted fresco-paint-ing. Thenceforth, images of divine things ceasedto be made by hands, but were formed in the mind and conveyedfrom one to another as intangible thought, to take shape andcolor according to idiosyncrasies of imagination. Printed booksin consequence became the means of a vast step forward inintellectual freedom and general culture. Wherever they werefreely admitted, the old religious art either degenerated into aspurious fashion, having no vital force, or it was denounced asidolatry and eventually cast out of its fanes, or destroyed. Forthose who agree in relation to art that what has been may againbe, it is requisite to look back on the causes of sweeping changeslike the above, and see if they are of a fundamental or acci-dental nature, before they can rightly determine their finalop
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