2. Define the concept of the Sublime.

Following 'the discoveries of geography within reason' this was one thought to be an intellectual basis that the sublime carried. The main concept was to simply convert the subject matter of humanistic ideas and social development to landscapes to finally the presentation of a landsscape and man. During the 18th century landscapes were pretty unimportant until sublime came into place. It started when artists began to integrate landscapes into their works as backgrounds which then had moved to becoming a main subject matter. The reason for this was that other than in early history landscapes were recorded for historical purposes, they were considered to be more relevant in creating different atmospheres. Landscapes provided a pictureque setting for some more important, human drama, and as topography, or a scientific reconstruction of land masses of a particular area. The sublime compositionally followed aspects of hiarachy and human placement within a landscape, where man was set as above nature and placed significantly to be seen as small or large.