Modern Painters, Volume 5 (of 5) by John Ruskin
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"Modern Painters, Volume 5 (of 5)" by John Ruskin is the final volume of a five-part work published in 1860. Ruskin began this ambitious project at age 24 to defend landscape painter J. M. W. Turner and argue that modern artists surpassed the old masters in depicting nature. This concluding volume marks the end of a formative period in Ruskin's life, shaped profoundly by his father's influence, completing a journey that championed
accurate documentation of nature and explored symbolism through the natural world. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 |
|---|---|
| Title | Modern Painters, Volume 5 (of 5) |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Painters |
| Credits |
Produced by Marius Masi, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 70.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | ND: Fine Arts: Painting |
| Subject | Aesthetics |
| Subject | Painting |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 44329 |
| Release Date | Dec 1, 2013 |
| Last Update | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1247 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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