Download or read book Building Ruskin s Italy written by Stephen Kite and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive fieldwork, and research into John Ruskin's still little-interpreted archival material, notebooks and drawings (in the Ruskin Library, Lancaster University, UK and elsewhere), Stephen Kite offers an unprecedented account of the evolution of Ruskin's architectural thinking and observation in the context of Italy where his watching of building achieved its greatest intensity. Venice naturally figures large in a work that also examines other key sites including Verona, Lucca, Pisa, Florence, Milan and Monza; here, the fabrics are vividly read in their contexts against the rich evidence of Ruskin's diaries, his pocket-book sketches, architectural worksheets, drawings, and daguerrotypes (the early form of photography), and the drafts and published editions of the texts. Kite presents the complex story of Ruskin's visual thinking in architecture as a narrative of deepening interpretation and representation, focusing on the humbler monuments of Italy. He shows how Ruskin's early picturesque naturalism was transformed by the realisation that to understand the built realities confronting him in Italy demanded a closer engagement with the substance of the stones themselves; reflecting Ruskin's sense of his task as a near-archaeological gleaning and gathering of remains 'hidden in many a grass grown court, and silent pathway, and lightless canal'.

Download or read book Visitors to Verona written by Caroline Webb and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even before the advent of mass tourism, Verona was a popular destination for travellers, including those undertaking the popular 'Grand Tour' across Europe. In this book, Caroline Webb compares the experiences of travellers from the era of Shakespeare to the years following the incorporation of the Veneto into the new kingdom of Italy in 1866. She considers their reasons for visiting Verona as well as their experiences and expectations once they arrived. The majority of English visitors between 1670 and 1760 were young members of the aristocracy, accompanied by tutors, who arrived on their way to or from Rome, as part of a 'Grand Tour' intended to 'finish' their classical education. With the Industrial Revolution in the second half of the eighteenth century, and the resultant increasing wealth of the upper middle classes, the number of visitors to Verona increased although this tourism was derailed once Napoleon invaded Italy in the late 1790s. After 1815 and the allied victory at Waterloo there was a new flood of visitors, previously deprived of the opportunity of continental travel during the Napoleonic wars. As the nineteenth century progressed, especially with the arrival of the railway, an increasing number of visitors appeared from across Europe and even from across the Atlantic, keen to explore the fabled city of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In comparing a myriad of varied accounts, this book provides an unrivalled perspective on the history of one of Italy's most seductive cities.

Download or read book Cities of Northern and Central Italy written by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cities of Northern and Central Italy written by Hare and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book City of Northern and Central Italy by Augustus J C Hare written by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Building News and Engineering Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Building News written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Italian Renaissance Architecture written by Georges Gromort and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fragment of a Parallel Between the History Literature and Art of Italy in the Middle Ages written by William S. R. Kerr (Marquis of Lothian.) and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cities of Northern and Central Italy In Venetia Parma the Emilia the Marche and morthern Tuscany written by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sturgis Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture and Building written by Russell Sturgis and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of monumental 3-volume classic offers comprehensive and detailed coverage of architectural terms, individuals and national styles. Total in set: over 100 photographs and more than 1000 illustrations. Bibliography.

Download or read book Ruskin in Italy Letters to His Parents 1845 written by John Ruskin and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The letters Ruskin wrote home almost daily during his Italian tour of 1845 are here fully published for the first time. The tour had an immediate effect on the first two volumes of Modern Painters and marks the beginning of Ruskin's lifelong concern with Italian painting and with Italian Romanesque and Gothic architecture. The letters record the influences on him, his changing views and feelings, and are therefore an essential document for the understanding of his development as a critic. They also contribute a good deal of evidence toward the understanding of his enormously important relationship with his ageing parents. Not least important, the letters taken altogether make a delightful travel book, for they were written not only to inform, but to entertain"--Jacket.

Download or read book Oxfordshire written by Nikolaus Pevsner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford's unique collection of university and college buildings both old and new form a major part of this book. The city itself with its medieval walls and castle and ancient churches is also fully described. Among the county's distinguished houses are Vanbrugh's Blenheim and Kent's Rousham Park, each in magnificently landscaped grounds, while village churches range from notable Norman examples such as Iffley to G.E. Street's inventive Victorian creations such as St Simon & St Jude at Shipton-under-Wychwood. Other attractive towns in this still strongly rural county vary from stone-built Chipping Norton in the Cotswolds to brick-built Henley on the Thames.

Download or read book Building written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book RUSKIN S VENICE written by SARAH. QUILL and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book John Ruskin the Pre Raphaelites and Religious Imagination written by Sheona Beaumont and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-26 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a collection of essays by leading experts which examine nineteenth century ideas about Christian theology, art, architecture, restoration, and curatorial practice. The volume unveils the importance of John Ruskin’s writing for today’s audience, and allies it with the dynamism of the Pre-Raphaelite religious imagination. Ruskin’s drawings and daguerreotypes, as well as Pre-Raphaelite paintings, stained glass, and engravings, are shown to be alive with visual theology: artists such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and Evelyn de Morgan illuminate aspects of faith and aesthetics. The interdisciplinary nature of this volume encourages reflection upon praise, truth, and beauty. The aesthetic conversations between Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites themselves become a form of ‘sacra conversazione’.

Download or read book John Ruskin written by Timothy Hilton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Ruskin, one of the greatest writers and thinkers of the nineteenth century, was also one of the most prolific. Not only did he publish some 250 works, but he also wrote lectures, diaries, and thousands of letters that have not been published. This book draws on the original source material to give a moving account of the life of this brilliant and creative man.