Christian Art and Symbolism 1872 by Richard St John Tyrwhitt ~ Art History ~ Preface by John Ruskin

Title: Christian Art and Symbolism with Some Hints on the Study of Landscape

Author: Rev. R. [Richard] St. John Tyrwhitt / [Preface by John Ruskin]

Description: First Edition. Blue cloth stamped in gilt, in an apparent custom rebind. Top edge gilt. Bit of fraying at spine ends; rubbed at extremities; moderate general soiling to front cover. Bookseller's label on free front endpaper, else interior is clean and unmarked. Lacking frontispiece. Seven illustrations. xii + 292, [2] pages.

Eight lectures by Richard St John Tyrwhitt (1827-1895), the English cleric and academic, known for his writings on art, who in 1857 had assisted William Morris in painting the roof of the Oxford Union Society. The preface was written by John Ruskin (1819-1900), a friend of Tyrwhitt's and the then Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford.

Contents: Preface. I Introductory. II. Greek and Christian Art. III. Italian Art-History. IV. Florentine Succession of Painters and History of Symbolism and the Grotesque. V. Rafael and Michael Angelo. VI. Durer and Holbein. VII. Landscape Sketching. VIII. Poetry of Landscape. IX. Art, Craft, and Schools. Memorial Chart.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good

Publisher: Smith, Elder & Co.
Place: London

Year: 1872