L'éblouissement de la peinture - Ruskin sur Turner

A la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust a rendu internationalement célèbre le nom de Ruskin. Mais l'image ainsi donnée de son oeuvre est biaisée, car John Ruskin (1819-1900) n'était pas qu'un spécialiste de Turner ou de l'architecture gothique. Sa science s'étendait à la géologie, à l'histoire naturelle ou à l'économie politique. Le nombre de ses travaux, dans ces domaines également, est considérable. Ces Ecrits naturels réunissent, pour la première fois en français, quatre conférences d'histoire naturelle, dans lesquelles l'érudition prodigieuse de Ruskin s'allie à une verve humoristique déconcertante. Qu'il retrace le mythe d'Arachné, qu'il discoure sur le rouge-gorge, le crave à bec rouge ou sur les serpents, Ruskin se laisse entraîner par des réflexions beaucoup plus vastes, plus profondes, et toujours insolites. Un regard unique sur la nature, à découvrir de toute urgence.

Ecrits naturels

Les lys du jardin de la reine / par John Ruskin http: //gallica.bnf.fr/ark: /12148/bpt6k552342

Les Lys du jardin de la reine

Of all the buildings in Venice, later in date than the final additions to the Ducal Palace, the noblest is, beyond all question, that which, having been condemned by its proprietor, not many years ago, to be pulled down and sold for the value of its materials, was rescued by the Austrian government, and appropriated-the government officers having no other use for it-to the business of the Post-Office; though still known to the gondolier by its ancient name, the Casa Grimani. It is composed of three stories of the Corinthian order, at once simple, delicate, and sublime; but on so colossal a scale, that the three-storied palaces on its right and left only reach to the cornice which marks the level of its first floor. Yet it is not at first perceived to be so vast; and it is only when some expedient is employed to hide it from the eye, that by the sudden dwarfing of the whole reach of the Grand Canal, which it commands, we become aware that it is to the majesty of the Casa Grimani that the Rialto itself, and the whole group of neighboring buildings, owe the greater part of their impressiveness.

The Stones of Venice, Volume III

The decay of the city of Venice is, in many respects, like that of an outwearied and aged human frame; the cause of its decrepitude is indeed at the heart, but the outward appearances of it are first at the extremities. In the centre of the city there are still places where some evidence of vitality remains, and where, with kind closing of the eyes to signs, too manifest even there, of distress and declining fortune, the stranger may succeed in imagining, for a little while, what must have been the aspect of Venice in her prime. But this lingering pulsation has not force enough any more to penetrate into the suburbs and outskirts of the city; the frost of death has there seized upon it irrevocably, and the grasp of mortal disease is marked daily by the increasing breadth of its belt of ruin.

The Stones of Venice, Volume II

La réflexion sur les Alpes est indissociable des thèmes fondamentaux de la pensée de John Ruskin : la peinture, l'histoire de la Terre, la religion, l'expansion du tourisme et les menaces qu'elle fait peser sur la nature, le monde social et l'éducation. Dispersés au fil d'une oeuvre protéiforme, encore mal connue dans les pays de langue française, ses textes sur la montagne n'ont jamais été réunis comme tels, bien qu'ils offrent la matière d'un grand et beau livre. Donnant à lire quelques textes autobiographiques tirés des séjours à Chamonix ou à Genève, l'ouvrage comporte dans sa partie principale les chapitres de Modern Painters consacrés à la montagne - qui sont aussi des méditations sur l'art de Turner et sur le paysage. A travers ces pages, mais aussi dans la très riche illustration qui les accompagne, Ruskin apparaît comme l'un des grands penseurs du paysage au XIXe siècle. Philosophe attentif à la qualité de la relation de l'homme avec son environnement naturel, sa réflexion et ses prises de position influenceront profondément les courants de ce qu'on appelle aujourd'hui l'écocritique. Les Ecrits sur les Alpes de Ruskin sont présentés ici pour la première fois en français, dans une traduction qui se tient au plus près de la prose dynamique, éloquente et poétique, mais sachant aussi être exacte, du grand écrivain que fut Ruskin.

Ecrits sur les Alpes

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Les Matins à Florence: Simples études d'art chrétien

Our Fathers Have Told Us - Part 1, The Bible of Amiens

The title of this book, -or, more accurately, of its subject;-for no author was ever less likely than I have lately become, to hope for perennial pleasure to his readers from what has cost himself the most pains, -will be, perhaps, recognised by some as the last clause of the line chosen from Keats by the good folks of Manchester, to be written in letters of gold on the cornice, or Holy rood, of the great Exhibition which inaugurated the career of so many, -since organized, by both foreign governments and our own, to encourage the production of works of art, which the producing nations, so far from intending to be their "joy for ever, " only hope to sell as soon as possible. Yet the motto was chosen with uncomprehended felicity: for there never was, nor can be, any essential beauty possessed by a work of art, which is not based on the conception of its honoured permanence, and local influence, as a part of appointed and precious furniture, either in the cathedral, the house, or the joyful thoroughfare, of nations which enter their gates with thanksgiving, and their courts with praise.

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