Antiquitise

The spirit of the Kampen historians is far less sublime and instead of antiquitising philosophical and historical remarks we rather encounter practical and instrumental guidance for the city’s administration.

For an individual whose stylistic bias did not preclude—in any way at all—the enjoyment of baroque church art, for one to whom the soft voice of a soul could sound even through a work such as this baldachin, to that individual even the “antiquitised” hymnody of the golden age of the baroque would still have something to say.

Usually, however, they have been content to give several examples and to state whether Greek or Roman art is a source of “antiquitising” iconography (or style).