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All great art is praise : art and religion in John Ruskin /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nichols, Aidan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Ruskin, John, > 1819-1900 > Religion.
Ruskin, John, > 1819-1900 > Knowledge > Art.
Art and religion.
Table of Contents:
  • Paradise and madness: John Ruskin's life
  • Turner and truth: Modern painters I
  • Beauty and the imagination: Modern painters II
  • The seven lamps of architecture
  • Pre-Raphaelitism and the Edinburgh lectures
  • Building blocks: The stones of Venice I
  • Byzantium and the goths: The stones of Venice II
  • The trouble with the Renaissance: The stones of Venice III
  • Return to Venice
  • The varieties of art: Modern painters III
  • Depicting the cosmos: Modern painters IV
  • The rose and the worm: Modern painters V
  • The political economy of art and other critical matters
  • University with a difference: the Oxford lectures
  • From Tuscany to the Somme
  • Back to England again
  • Conclusion: final public letters, last look at a life.