All great art is praise : art and religion in John Ruskin / Aidan Nichols, OP.

Author/Creator:

Nichols, Aidan, author.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2016]

Format/Description:

Book
xiii, 613 pages ; 24 cm

Subjects:

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 -- Religion.
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 -- Knowledge -- Art.
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
Art and religion.
Art
Religion

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.

ISBN:

9780813228921
0813228921

OCLC:

951226131

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