Translations of the Sublime ─ The Early Modern Reception and Dissemination of Longinus' Peri Hupsous in Rhetoric, the Visual Arts, Architecture and the Theatre

Historians, historians of art and architecture, and scholars of literature examine the reception of first-century AD Greek writer Longinus' treatise on the sublime before modern notions of sublime had been codified. Their topics include Longinus and poetic imagination in late Renaissance literary theory, le mervielleux and the sublime in theories on French performing arts 1650-1750, painter Salvator Rosa and the 17th-century sublime, figuring the sublime in English church architecture 1640-1730, and 18th-century architectural experience and the sublime. Only names are indexed. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Caroline van Eck is Professor of architectural history and theory at Leiden University. Recent publications include Classical Rhetoric and the Arts in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge 2007); Inigo Jones Reconstructs Stonehenge: Architectural History between Memory and Narration (Amsterdam: Architectura & Natura Press 2009) and ‘Living Statues: Living Presence Response, Agency and the Sublime’, Art History (2010) vol. 33/4, pp. 642-660. Stijn Bussels is Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Groningen. His monograph The Antwerp Entry of 1549: Rhetoric, Performance and Power in the Early Modern Netherlands will be published in 2011 by Rodopi in the Ludus-series. Together with Caroline van Eck he has edited a special issue of Art History on the relations between the arts and the theatre in early modern Europe: ‘Theatricality and the Early Modern Visual Arts’, in: Art History, March 2010, vol. 33, nr. 2. Maarten Delbeke is Associate Professor at the department of Architecture and Urban Planning of Ghent University. Currently he leads the project The Quest for the Legitimacy of Architecture in Europe 1750-1850 at Leiden University, funded by a Vidi-grant from the Dutch Science Foundation (N.W.O.). With Evonne Levy and Steven Ostrow he has edited Bernini’s Biographies. Critical Essays (Penn State UP, 2006) and his monograph Sforza Pallavicino and Art Theory in Bernini’s Rome is forthcoming with As