Time

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No period', wrote Erwin Panofsky, 'has been so obsessed with the depth and width, the horror and the sublimity of the concept of time as the Baroque, the period in which man found himself confronted with the infinite as a quality of the universe instead of as a prerogative of God'. The advances in science and in astronomical observation brought about in the seventeenth century a new concern with accuracy in the measurement of time. The Flemish sculptor Lucas Faydherbe adheres to the usual type of Time the Destroyer in his tomb of Archbishop Andreas Cruesen. The ballet performed to the music of Time recurs in an etching by Claude Lorrain. The representation of the times of the year in the form of landscape views, which in the sixteenth century had been raised to a sublime level by the genius of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, was kept alive by Netherlandish draughtsmen and engravers of the succeeding century.

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