Building Ruskin's Italy : watching architecture / Stephen Kite.

Main entry:

Kite, Stephen.

Title & Author:

Building Ruskin's Italy : watching architecture / Stephen Kite.

Publication:

Description:

xii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Picturesque down to its door knockers" : an Italian grand tour -- "Constant watchfulness" : beginning the study of architecture (1841-45) -- Watching Byzantium 1846-50 -- "Watchful wandering" : evolving a Gothic taxonomy -- "Cities of bits" : colour, ornament and spoils -- Stones of Verona.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Based on extensive field-work, and research into John Ruskin's still little-interpreted archival material, notebooks and drawings, Stephen Kite offers an account of the evolution of Ruskin's architectural thinking and observation in the context of Italy where his watching of building achieved its greatest intensity.

ISBN:

9781409437963 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1409437965 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 Criticism and interpretation.
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 Knowledge and learning.
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 Travel Italy.
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
Ruskin, John 1819-1900
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 Knowledge Architecture.
Architecture Italy.
Architecture Italie.
Learning and scholarship
Architecture
Architektur
Rezeption
Skizzenbuch
Architekturzeichnung
Architekturtheorie
Italy
Italien

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 278961
Call No.: BIB 214755
Status: Available

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