Overview
Satisfies a growing desire for reclaiming Ruskin
Provides new and theological insights for those with an interest in the religious imagination
Written for readers across art history, English literature, theology & religious studies, and visual culture
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Visual Interlude i: An Angelic Conversation
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Pre-Raphaelite Conversations with Ruskinian Truths
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Visual Interlude ii: A Syncretic Communion
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About this book
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’.
Reviews
“A range of scholars, mainly female, some of them established voices, others emergent, shed new light on the central topos of the sacred in the work of Ruskin and his circle.” (Michael Wheeler, author of Ruskin's God (1999))
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: John Ruskin, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Religious Imagination
Book Subtitle: Sacre Conversazioni
Editors: Sheona Beaumont, Madeleine Emerald Thiele
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21554-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-21553-7Published: 27 June 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-21556-8Due: 11 July 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-21554-4Published: 26 June 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 315
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 54 illustrations in colour
Topics: Christian Theology, Aesthetics, Arts, Nineteenth-Century Literature