All Great Art is Praise : Art and Religion in John Ruskin / Aidan Nichols, OP.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nichols, Aidan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900--Knowledge--Art.

Ruskin, John.

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900--Religion.

Art and religion.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (632 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The Catholic University of America Press, [2016]

Summary:

The volume looks especially closely at Ruskin's changing attitudes to Catholicism.The son of a stoutly Bible-Protestant mother and a father politically opposed to the civil emancipation of Catholics, Ruskin found it increasingly difficult to combine his inherited anti-Catholicism with his appreciation of Byzantine-Venetian, Renaissance-humanist.

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8132-2893-X

OCLC:

964657445