Guide to the Principal Pictures in the Academy of Fine Arts at Venice
“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 ty...
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| description | “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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1781102026-06-30T06:35:16Z Guide to the Principal Pictures in the Academy of Fine Arts at Venice Ruskin, John Tucker, Paul Accademia Gallery Venice Art Criticism John Ruskin Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing Venetian Painting 1DST-IT-NVE thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MN 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899::3MNQ Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899 thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGC Exhibition catalogues and specific collections “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. 2026-06-30T06:35:11Z 2026-06-30T06:35:11Z 2026-06-29T10:10:38Z 2023 book 2784-8507 https://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-713-5/ https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/114452 9788869697128 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/178110 ita Sources, Literatures, Arts & Landscapes of Europe open access image/jpeg https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/114452/4/9788869697128.pdf Edizioni Ca’ Foscari – Venice University Press 10.30687/978-88-6969-712-8 10.30687/978-88-6969-712-8 9788869697128 Edizioni Ca’ Foscari – Venice University Press 194 Venice, Italy open access |
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