Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog. 1818

Artist: Casper David Friedrich

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The eighteenth century was an age of travelers anxious to gt to know new landscapes and new customs, not out of desire for conquest, as in previous centuries, but in order to savor new pleasures and new emotions. This led to the development of a taste for things that were exotic, interesting, curious, different, and astounding. This period marks the birth of what we might call the “poetics of mountains” the traveler bold enough to venture to cross the Alps was fascinated by impervious cliffs, endless glaciers, bottomless chasms, and boundless stretches of land.

Even before the end of the seventeenth century, in his ‘Telluris theoria sacra’ Thomas Burnet saw in the experience of the mountains something that uplifted the soul toward God, calling up a hint of infinity and capable of arousing great thoughts and passions. In the eighteenth century, in his ‘Moral Essays,’ Earl of Shaftesbury said that even the rugged crags, the wilderness, stuck him as all the more fascinating for they represented nature in a more genuine manner and were enveloped in magnificence far superior to what he described as the “ridiculous counterfeits” of princely gardens. ~ Page 282

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