A lofty, ennobling seriousness as the main characteristic of certain poetry, as identified in the treatise On the Sublime, attributed to the 3rd-century Greek rhetorician Cassius Longinus. The concept [..]

of high moral or intellectual value He was uneven, disproportioned, saying ordinary things on great occasions, and now and then, without the slightest provocation, uttering the sublimest and most beau [..]

1580s, "expressing lofty ideas in an elevated manner," from Middle French sublime (15c.), or directly from Latin sublimis "uplifted, high, borne aloft, lofty, exalted, eminent, distingu [..]

Awe-inspiring or worthy of reverence. In philosophy, literature, and the arts, the sublime refers to a quality of greatness that is beyond all calculation. Related: Barnett Newman. Vir Heroicus Sublim [..]

Theory developed by Edmund Burke in the mid eighteenth century, where he defined sublime art as art that refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation

The Greek rhetorician Longinus wrote a treatise On the Sublime, which argued that sublimity ("loftiness") is the most important quality of fine literature. The sublime caused the rea [..]

In general use, the word Sublime means 'of exalted status'. In the eighteenth century the term was given a specific use (eg by Edmund Burke), in contrast with the word Beautiful (meaning � [..]

on high, aloft

grand or lofty in style.

(adj) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style(adj) worthy of adoration or reverence(adj) lifted up or set high(v) vaporize and then condense right back again(v) change or caus [..]

An aesthetic concept which entered mainstream European thought in the 18th century. As a category it was distinct from, though often discussed in conjunction with, the Beautiful and the Picturesque, both in relation to aesthetics and, in Britain, to landscape gardening. It originally derived from rhetoric and poetry and gained wider currency after [..]

A habit of appreciating nature as beyond human control, immense, powerful, awe-inspiring. Associated with mountains, cataracts, the ocean, stars. The standard sources are Longinus, On the Sublime

Term that came into general use in the 18th century to denote a new aesthetic concept that was held to be distinct from the beautiful and the Picturesque and was associated with ideas of awe and vastn [..]

in art, the term can be traced back to ancient Greece and the belief that great artworks could ‘uplift the soul’. From the late 1700s, ‘the sublime’ was used to describe wild and expansive nature – or [..]

In the context of aesthetics, it is a concept dating back to the ancient world, and when applied to American landscape painting, it especially pertains to the 19th-century Hudson River School. Histori [..]

of such excellence, beauty, perfection as to inspire awe. Often accompanied with a sense of mortality.

A complex and important idea in the history of aesthetics, sparked in late seventeenth-century Europe by the translation of the ancient Greek text On the Sublime (attributed to Longinus) and furthered [..]

An aesthetic concept often applied to landscape painting since the eighteenth century. It describes scenes that excite a sense of awe by evoking the overwhelming vastness of the world.

SUBLIME - a description of God/The Divine Lamb from the hymn CROWN HIM WITH MANY CROWNS by Matthew Bridges (1800-94) '''Crown Him the Lord of years, the Potentate of time, Creator of the [..]

That which impresses the mind with a sense of grandeur and power, inspiring a sense of awe.