John Ruskin and the Europe of Cathedrals

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_5287
dc.contributor.author	Reichler Claude
dc.title	John Ruskin and the Europe of Cathedrals
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	On his many travels Ruskin visited religious monuments, including cathedrals. The list would be long, either by mentioning his visits in his Diaries or by describing and analyzing monuments in his works on architecture. His interest became passionate about Gothic cathedrals, and sometimes very critical for other periods. My presentation will focus on a hermeneutics of styles and mainly the Gothic style in Ruskin’s work. Through this process, I will seek to understand his positions on the question of restoration, and I will once again open the file on the discussions he is initiating on Viollet-le-Duc’s work: “Let us not talk about restoration, it is a lie from one end to the other”, he wrote in The Seven Lamps of Architecture.
dc.relation.ispartof	Sources, Literatures, Arts & Landscapes of Europe
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-12-15
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-488-2/john-ruskin-and-the-europe-of-cathedrals/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-487-5/012
dc.identifier.issn	2724-6620
dc.identifier.eissn	2784-8507
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-488-2
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-487-5
dc.rights	Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution + Noncommercial + NoDerivatives
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dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Gothic cathedrals
dc.subject	Gothic cathedrals
dc.subject	John Ruskin
dc.subject	John Ruskin
dc.subject	Religious monuments
dc.subject	Religious monuments
dc.subject	Restoration
dc.subject	Restoration
dc.subject	Viollet-le-Duc
dc.subject	Viollet-le-Duc

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John Ruskin and the Europe of Cathedrals

Claude Reichler Université de Lausanne, Suisse

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On his many travels Ruskin visited religious monuments, including cathedrals. The list would be long, either by mentioning his visits in his Diaries or by describing and analyzing monuments in his works on architecture. His interest became passionate about Gothic cathedrals, and sometimes very critical for other periods. My presentation will focus on a hermeneutics of styles and mainly the Gothic style in Ruskin’s work. Through this process, I will seek to understand his positions on the question of restoration, and I will once again open the file on the discussions he is initiating on Viollet-le-Duc’s work: “Let us not talk about restoration, it is a lie from one end to the other”, he wrote in The Seven Lamps of Architecture.

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Dec. 15, 2020

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Keywords: John Ruskin • Gothic cathedrals • Religious monuments • Viollet-le-Duc • Restoration

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