Palazzo Dario
1846
22.0 x 12.0 cm
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900)
John Ruskin var en dansk kunsthistoriker og filosof, hvis arbejde udforskede forholdet mellem kunst og samfund samt vigtigheden af natur og æstetik. Hans mest kendte værker inkluderer landskabsmalerier som "Dawn, Coniston" og analyser af gotisk arkitektur samt hans indflydelsesrige essays om etik og miljøbevidsthed.
Possibly dating from the spring of 1846, this study shows the whole façade of a palace on the lower reach of the Grand Canal, between the Accademia and the Salute. Built in about 1487 for Giovanni Dario – unusually, not a nobleman, but secretary to the Venetian Republic in Constantinople – it exemplifies the style of “Renaissance engrafted on Byzantine”, with remarkable inlaid panels of marble, that made it acceptable to Ruskin as a building not from the heyday of Venetian Gothic. Henry James compared it to “a house of cards that hold together by a tenure it would be fatal to touch.”
Om dette kunstværk
- Titel: Palazzo Dario
- Kunstner: John Ruskin
- År: 1846
- Oprindelige mål: 22.0 x 12.0 cm
- Format: Tall
- Ophavsretlig status: Public domain
- Hovedfarve: Espresso
- Farvetone: Green Spectrum
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