From darkness to light : writers in museums 1798-1898 /: writers in museums 1798-1898. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Rosella Mamoli Zorzi and Katherine Manthorne.
• Editors: Mamoli Zorzi, Rosella; Manthorne, Katherine
• Other Names: International Conference "From darkness to light : writers in museusm 1798-1898"
• Contents: Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: From Darkness to Light: Writers in Museums 1798-1898 / Rosella Mamoli Zorzi and Katherine Manthorne -- Part I: On Light. 1. Tintoretto: An Unexpected Light. Lightnings, Haloes, Embers and Other Glowing Lights / Melania G. Mazzucco ; 2. The Artificial Lighting Available to European and American Museums, 1800-1915 / David E. Nye -- Part II: On Light at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco and in Venice. 3. Tintoretto in San Rocco Between Light and Darkness / Maria Agnese Chiari Moretto Wiel ; 4. John Ruskin and Henry James in the Enchanting Darkness of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco / Rosella Mamoli Zorzi ; 5. Light at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco / Demetrio Sonaglioni ; 6. The Light in the Venice Ducal Palace / Camillo Tonini ; 7. Latent in Darkness: John Ruskin's Virtual Guide to the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice / Emma Sdegno ; 8. Venice, Art and Light in French Literature: 1831-1916 / Cristina Beltrami -- Part III: On Light in American Museums. 9. One Hundred Gems of Light: The Peale Family Introduces Gaslight to America / Burton K. Kummerow ; 10. Illuminating the Big Picture: Frederic Church's Heart of the Andes Viewed by Writers / Katherine Manthorne ; 11. Italian Genius in American Light: The James Jackson Jarves Collection at Yale / Kathleen Lawrence ; 12. Shedding Light on the History of Lighting at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum / Holly Salmon ; 13. Seeing Beauty: Light and Design at the Freer Gallery, ca. 1923 / Lee Glazer -- Part IV: On Light in Museum and Mansions in England, France, and Spain. 14. Lighting up the Darkness: The National Gallery, London / Sarah Quill ; 15. Sir John Soane / Helen Dorey ; 16. Chatsworth, a Modern English Mansion / Marina Coslovi ; 17. Daylight and Gold: In the Galleries With Henry James / Paula Deitz ; 18. Remarks on Illumination in Nineteenth-Century American Travel Writings on Madrid's Prado Museum / Pere Gifra-Adroher -- Part V: On Light in Italian Museums. 19. To Look (and to See) in the Nineteenth Century: At the Uffizi and Elsewhere / Cristina Acidini -- 20. Ways of Perceiving: The Passionate Pilgrims' Gaze in Nineteenth-Century Italy / Margherita Ciacci ; 21. 'In the Quiet Hours and the Deep Dusk, These Things too Recovered Their Advantage': Henry James on Light in European Museums / Joshua Parker ; 22. 'Shedding Light on Old Italian Masters': Timothy Cole's Series for the Century / Page S. Knox ; 23. 'Into the Broad Sunlight': Anne Hampton Brewster's Chronicle of Gilded Age Rome / Adrienne Baxter Bell -- Part VI: On Light in Museums in Japan. 24. In Praise of Shadows: Ernest Fenollosa and the Origins of Japanese Museum Culture / Dorsey Kleitz and Sandra Lucore -- Postscript. 25. Premonitions: Shakespeare to James / Sergio Perosa ; 26. The Museum on Stage: From Plato's Myth to Today's Perception / Alberto Pasetti Bombardella ; 27. Time and Light / Antonio Foscari -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations.
• Publisher Details: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Open Book Publishers
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 729/.28; Museums -- Lighting -- History; Art museums -- Lighting -- History; Art -- Exhibition techniques -- History; Authors -- 18th century -- Attitudes; Authors -- 19th century -- Attitudes; Museum visitors -- Attitudes; Art museum visitors -- Attitudes
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783745517; 1783745517; 9781783745524; 1783745525; 9781783745531; 1783745533; 9781783747238; 1783747234
• Related ISBNs: 9781783745500; 9781783745494
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 31, 2019).
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