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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154637703321

Autore

Nichols Aidan

Titolo

All Great Art is Praise [[electronic resource] ] : Art and Religion in John Ruskin / / Aidan Nichols, OP

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2016

ISBN

0-8132-2893-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (632 pages)

Disciplina

828/.809

Soggetti

Art and religion

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.