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Guide to the Principal Pictures in the Academy of Fine Arts at Venice

A Critical Edition, with Other Texts on Carpaccio and Venetian Painting

John Ruskin

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Paul Tucker    Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italia    

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“In the first place, if the weather is fine, go outside the gate you have just come in at, and look above it”. From its opening words any of the “English travellers” for whom it was expressly written in 1877 might have surmised that this Guide to Venice’s main picture gallery would not conform to type. Ruskin himself thought of it as an “explosive torpedo” aiming to subvert received notions not just of the modern guidebook as a genre but of the culture of travel it served, of the purpose of museums, of his own reputation as an interpreter of Venetian art and history and, more broadly still, of the very nature of art and its history. The Guide’s idiosyncrasies have often been dismissed as signs of personal irritation and obsession, even of mental instability. This new and fully critical edition re-examines the circumstances of its composition and its special relation to Ruskin’s mature appraisal of the painting of Carpaccio as a signal example, even in its ambiguities, of the “sacred imagination of things that are not”. It also explores the Guide’s intertextual links with Ruskin’s other writings of the period (a selection of which are included as “Supplementary Texts”), with the aim of showing it to have been integral to the drive to moral, social and aesthetic reform generally informing his still neglected late work.

Pubblicato
18 Aprile 2023
Lingua
IT, EN
ISBN (PRINT)
978-88-6969-713-5
ISBN (EBOOK)
978-88-6969-712-8
Numero pagine
194
Dimensioni
24x22 cm
Copyright: © 2023 John Ruskin. Paul Tucker. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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INTRODUCTION. EDITIONS OF THE GUIDE
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GUIDE TO THE PRINCIPAL PICTURES IN THE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS AT VENICE
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