The majority of the Brothers, seeing in it dangerous designs of
Illuminism,* met it with a coldness that surprised Pierre.
Venegas had earlier testified in inquisitorial proceedings against the priest Luis Beteta, accused of
Illuminism (1538).
From this text it possible to gather that Valle gave priorityto line, colour and composition, which formally means a classicist vision of painting, hence his criticism of "
illuminism" as represented by Sorolla in his personal way of assimilating French impressionistic concern with light (22) and translating it to the canvas.
First, although Plato had abstracted from concrete reality and had linked knowledge to separate mental entities, ideas, there had existed in the Platonic tradition an acute epoptic hope, fed by a kind of revelation and
illuminism, of coming at some end of a metaphysical ladder to a cognition in the form of an ineluctable visual presence of God.
Novikov' (A Rosicrucian utopia: Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, and
Illuminism in 18th-century Russia: q]ae circle of N.I.
Teresa thus lived under the shadow of
Illuminism and the ecclesiastical misogyny with which it was inextricably associated.
(41) Marcia Keith Suchard, "Leibniz, Benzelius, and the Kabbalistic Roots of Swedish
Illuminism," in Leibniz, Mysticism.
Illuminism would add a pragmatic and utilitarian content to various depictions of the 19th century landscape, produced and disseminated within the intermediary zone between art and science, between meaning and an outlet for disinterested aesthetic sensibility.
Billington, a Rhodes Scholar who has been the Librarian of Congress since 1987, illustrates in his comprehensive and thoroughly documented 1980 study Fire in the Minds of Men: The Origins of the Revolutionary Faith, it is from "Bavarian
Illuminism" that "the modern revolutionary tradition" descends.
In this sense, while being hugely indebted to the lay thought emanating from Illuminist France, we Europeans are at the moment missing a major lesson to be derived from
Illuminism: wisdom means humility, and vice versa.