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dc.identifier	ECF_article_14528
dc.title	«A traveller’s tales»: prassi disegnativa e teorie estetiche di Solomon Caesar Malan
dc.contributor.author	Dodi Elena
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/mdccc-1800/2023/1/a-travellers-tales-prassi-disegnativa-e-teorie-est/
dc.description.abstract	This article aims to investigate the figure of Solomon Caesar Malan (1812‑94) from a sole art-historical perspective. Malan was a linguist and theologian of the first rank and undertook many journeys between Europe and Asia to deepen his knowledge of languages. These journeys were documented by him with a collection of around 1,600 sketches and watercolours, assembled in ten albums. The observation of Malan’s travel drawings and the combined reading of his Aphorisms on Drawing, published in 1856, reveal a personality who was deeply immersed in the critical debate of his time, with a modern and personal conception of art, expressed first on a practical level and then on a theoretical level, but continuously inspired by a profound spirituality.
dc.relation.ispartof	MDCCC 1800
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 12 \| December 2023
dc.issued	2023-12-04
dc.dateAccepted	2023-04-19
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-03-14
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2280-8841
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/MDCCC/2280-8841/2023/01/004
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Aphorisms on Drawing
dc.subject	Harding
dc.subject	Landscape
dc.subject	Ruskin
dc.subject	Solomon Caesar Malan

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«A traveller’s tales»: prassi disegnativa e teorie estetiche di Solomon Caesar Malan

Elena Dodi Università degli Studi «G. D'Annunzio» Chieti-Pescara, Italia

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abstract

This article aims to investigate the figure of Solomon Caesar Malan (1812‑94) from a sole art-historical perspective. Malan was a linguist and theologian of the first rank and undertook many journeys between Europe and Asia to deepen his knowledge of languages. These journeys were documented by him with a collection of around 1,600 sketches and watercolours, assembled in ten albums. The observation of Malan’s travel drawings and the combined reading of his Aphorisms on Drawing, published in 1856, reveal a personality who was deeply immersed in the critical debate of his time, with a modern and personal conception of art, expressed first on a practical level and then on a theoretical level, but continuously inspired by a profound spirituality.

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Dec. 4, 2023

Accepted

April 19, 2023

Submitted

March 14, 2023

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Keywords: Harding • Landscape • Aphorisms on Drawing • Ruskin • Solomon Caesar Malan

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