Modern Painters, Volume 4 (of 5)
John Ruskin's Modern Painters began in 1843 as a defense of J. M. W. Turner and grew into a vast inquiry into art, nature and morality. This fourth volume, published in 1856, is titled Of Mountain Beauty. Ruskin studies the forms of mountains with a geologist's eye, the structure of rocks, crests, precipices and slopes, and compares what he sees with the way Turner and earlier painters drew them, illustrating his argument with his own drawings. The volume also contains the celebrated chapters on The Mountain Gloom and The Mountain Glory, which ask how life among the Alps has shaped the minds and faith of the people who live there. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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Modern Painters, Volume 4 (of 5) by John Ruskin is filed under "Philosophy" in the Vinteuil library.
