John Ruskin, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Religious Imagination: Sacre Conversazioni

ISBN-13: 9783031215537 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 175 str.

Sheona Beaumont; Madeleine Emerald Thiele

Opis

This volume presents a collection of essays by leading experts which examine nineteenth century ideas about Christian theology, art, architecture, restoration, and curatorial practice. The volume unveils the importance of John Ruskin’s writing for today’s audience, and allies it with the dynamism of the Pre-Raphaelite religious imagination. Ruskin’s drawings and daguerreotypes, as well as Pre-Raphaelite paintings, stained glass, and engravings, are shown to be alive with visual theology: artists such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and Evelyn de Morgan illuminate aspects of faith and aesthetics.The interdisciplinary nature of this volume encourages reflection upon praise, truth, and beauty. The aesthetic conversations between Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites themselves become a form of ‘sacra conversazione’.

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Contents

 

List of Illustrations

Note to Ruskin Referencing

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

 

Introduction

Sheona Beaumont and Madeleine Emerald Thiele

 

Part One: Ruskin’s Sermons on Visual Theology

Earth and Heaven: Ruskin on Dirt, Work, and Beauty

Flora Armetta

 

Ruskin’s Venice: Embracing Sacred Fragments of Imperfect Beauty

Madeleine Emerald Thiele

 

‘Those are Leaves’: Ruskin’s Analogical Imagination and the Pre-Raphaelite Theology of Nature

Alison Millbank

 

Visual Interlude i: an Angelic Conversation

Sounds and Visions at The Chapel of St Michael and All Angels

Mark Dean and Sheona Beaumont

 

Part Two: Pre-Raphaelite Conversations with Ruskinian Truths

Ruskin, Rossetti, and the Sacra Conversazione of Colour

Elizabeth Helsinger

 

‘The Loveliest Traditions of the Christian Legend’: Ruskin, Burne-Jones, and the Imaging of the Cross

Katherine Hinzman

 

Crystal Balls: Visions of Creation in the Art of Burne-Jones

Suzanne Fagence Cooper

 

Visual Interlude ii: a Syncretic Communion

A World Without Ceiling: Mary Watts’s ‘Language of Symbols’ at Limnerslease

Lucy Ella Rose

 

Part Three: Reinvigorating Sacred Spaces

Victorian Exodus: Visualising the Old Testament in Dalziels’ Bible Gallery (1881)

Madeline Hewitson

 

Heaven on Earth: Evelyn De Morgan’s Rejection of Materialism

Sarah Hardy

 

Art on Sundays: Henrietta Barnett and the Whitechapel Fine Art Loan Exhibitions

Lucy Hartley

 

Envoi

Sheona Beaumont and Madeleine Emerald Thiele

 

Index

O autorze

Sheona Beaumont is an artist and writer working with photography. She was Bishop Otter Scholar (2017-2020) with the Diocese of Chichester and King’s College London and has held artist residencies in various ecumenical settings. She is a co-founder of Visual Theology, whose first edited publication was Transforming Christian Thought in the Visual Arts (2021).

Madeleine Emerald Thiele is an art historian and public lecturer. Her research examines John Ruskin, Venice, Tractarian aesthetics and the angelic form within British art c.1840s–1900s. She is a co-founder of Visual Theology, whose first edited publication was Transforming Christian Thought in the Visual Arts (2021).

Blurb

This volume presents a collection of essays by leading experts which examine nineteenth century ideas about Christian theology, art, architecture, restoration, and curatorial practice. The volume unveils the importance of John Ruskin’s writing for today’s audience, and allies it with the dynamism of the Pre-Raphaelite religious imagination. Ruskin’s drawings and daguerreotypes, as well as Pre-Raphaelite paintings, stained glass, and engravings, are shown to be alive with visual theology: artists such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and Evelyn de Morgan illuminate aspects of faith and aesthetics.

The interdisciplinary nature of this volume encourages reflection upon praise, truth, and beauty. The aesthetic conversations between Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites themselves become a form of ‘sacra conversazione’.

Sheona Beaumont is an artist and writer working with photography. She was Bishop Otter Scholar (2017-2020) with the Diocese of Chichester and King’s College London and has held artist residencies in various ecumenical settings. She is a co-founder of Visual Theology, whose first edited publication was Transforming Christian Thought in the Visual Arts (2021).

Madeleine Emerald Thiele is an art historian and public lecturer. Her research examines John Ruskin, Venice, Tractarian aesthetics and the angelic form within British art c.1840s–1900s. She is a co-founder of Visual Theology, whose first edited publication was Transforming Christian Thought in the Visual Arts (2021).