Format:
1 online resource (394 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781783745517
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: From Darkness to Light: Writers in Museums 1798-1898 -- Part I: On Light -- 1. Tintoretto: An Unexpected Light. Lightnings, Haloes, Embers and Other Glowing Lights -- 2. The Artificial Lighting Available to European and American Museums, 1800-1915 -- Part II: On Light at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco and in Venice -- 3. Tintoretto in San Rocco Between Light and Darkness -- 4. John Ruskin and Henry James in the Enchanting Darkness of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco -- 5. Light at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco -- 6. The Light in the Venice Ducal Palace -- 7. Latent in Darkness: John Ruskin's Virtual Guide to the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice -- 1. The Venice Academy and Ruskin's Ideal Museum -- 2. Looking Into Dark Recesses -- 8. Venice, Art and Light in French Literature: 1831-1916 -- Part III: On Light in American Museums -- 9. One Hundred Gems of Light: The Peale Family Introduces Gaslight to America -- 10. Illuminating the Big Picture: Frederic Church's Heart of the Andes Viewed by Writers -- 11. Italian Genius in American Light: The James Jackson Jarves Collection at Yale -- 12. Shedding Light on the History of Lighting at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum -- 13. Seeing Beauty: Light and Design at the Freer Gallery, circa1923 -- Part IV: On Light in Museum and Mansions in England, France, and Spain -- 14. Lighting up the Darkness: The National Gallery, London -- 15. Sir John Soane -- 16. Chatsworth, a Modern English Mansion -- The Drawing Collection -- Electric Light -- 17. Daylight and Gold: In the Galleries With Henry James -- 18. Remarks on Illumination in Nineteenth-Century American Travel Writings on Madrid's Prado Museum -- Part V: On Light in Italian Museums -- 19. To Look (and to See) in the Nineteenth Century: At the Uffizi and Elsewhere
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20. Ways of Perceiving: The Passionate Pilgrims' Gaze in Nineteenth-Century Italy -- 21. 'In the Quiet Hours and the Deep Dusk, These Things too Recovered Their Advantage': Henry James on Light in European Museums -- 22. 'Shedding Light on Old Italian Masters': Timothy Cole's Series for The Century -- 23. 'Into the Broad Sunlight': Anne Hampton Brewster's Chronicle of Gilded Age Rome -- Roman Antiquities Seen by Moonlight -- Light's Metaphysical Properties -- Antiquities Brought to Light -- Part VI: On Light in Museums in Japan -- 24. In Praise of Shadows: Ernest Fenollosa and the Origins of Japanese Museum Culture -- Postscript -- 25. Premonitions: Shakespeare to James -- Coda -- 26. The Museum on Stage: From Plato's Myth to Today's Perception -- From the Theatre to Neuroscience -- Towards a Museum on Stage -- 27. Time and Light -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 20 -- Chapter 22 -- Chapter 23 -- Chapter 27 -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Mamoli Zorzi, Rosella From Darkness to Light Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers,c2019 ISBN 9781783745500
Language:
English
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