The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic

Front matter

THE SUBLIME IN THE VISUAL CULTURE OF THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY

DUTCH REPUBLIC

STUN US SIEGE AND BRAM VAN OOSTVELDT o,

Conclusion

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Acknowledgments

This book is the culmination of the ERC Starting Grant Project “Elevated Minds. The Sublime in the Public Arts in Seventeenth-Century Paris and Amsterdam.” We are grateful to our collaborators Wieneke Jansen, Frederik Knegtel, and Laura Plezier for all their input during the five years of the project, along with everyone involved in the publications that directly preceded or were part of the project: Lindsay Alberts, Jan Blanc, Lorne Darnell, Sigrid de Jong, Ralph Dekoninck, Maarten Delbeke, Annick Delfosse, Elizabeth den Hartog, Jorge Fernández-Santos, Emma Gilby, Anne-Madeleine Goulet, Francis Goyet, Hanneke Grootenboer, Hana Gründler, Lydia Hamlett, Michéle-Caroline Heck, Miguel Hermoso Cuesta, José Eloy Hortal Mufioz, Frans-Willem Korsten, Félix Labrador Arroyo, Helen Langdon, Victoire Malenfer, Walter Melion, Alessandro Metlica, Alessandra Mignatti, Anne-Frangoise Morel, Colette Nativel, Jürgen Pieters, Eugenio Refini, Matthias Roick, Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, Paul Smith, Kathrin Stocker, Dietmar Till, Klaas Tindemans, Caroline van Eck, Gijs Versteegen, and Thijs Weststeijn.

We do not want to leave unmentioned our current colleagues at Leiden and Ghent University. We would especially like to thank Sybille Lammes and Christel Stalpaert. Only in the pleasant working environment they create is it possible to write a book like this. Yvonne Bleyerveld and Ruben Suykerbuyk helped with the finishing touches, and Barbara Burn proved to be an excellent copy editor with incredible patience. Thanks to everyone at Routledge for their commitment and enthusiasm in turning our manuscript into a book.

Our thanks go to those who provided commentary on parts of this book: Hanneke Grootenboer, Michéle Caroline Heck, Mieke Kolk, Colette Nativel, and Larry Silver. Boudewijn Bakker read preliminary versions of most of the chapters, and his remarks improved the book considerably. Caroline van Eck deserves a special mention: She was present at the beginning of the entire project and remained involved until the last word of this book was written. Without her unceasing and thorough support, this book simply would never have existed.

We dedicate this book to our son, Karel Van Oostveldt Bussels, who makes our lives a joy every day.