The role of Venetian Renaissance painting in John Ruskin's utopian theories
Subtitle: a sociopolitical history of art
By: William McKeown ; with a preface by James Spates
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lewiston [N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780773415089
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Art in literature; Renaissance in literature
Other titles: Sociopolitical history of art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Ruskin and the critical reception of Venetian painting in British culture, 1651-1852; title: Solomonic imagery and the virtue of justice in Venetian art and Ruskin's political writings; title: Ruskin's concepts of kingship and Venetian depictions of Doges; title: Ruskin, St. George's Guild, and confraternity paintings in Renaissance Venice; title: Virgin martyrs and the Virgin Mary : Ruskin and the feminine ideal in Venetian Renaissance painting.