Description: COTTAGES & CO. SCENES FROM RURAL LIFE. OILS AND WATERCOLORS - GABRIELLE TOWNSEND"And now, goodbye to the cottage, and with it, to the humility of the natural landscape. We leave it with regret; not that we have the slightest intention of living in a cottage, with regard to comfort; not that we prefer mud to marble, pine to mahogany; but with it we leave behind so much of what is most beautiful on earth, the low landscapes peopled with bees, full of humble and quiet emotion, of a calm such as we imagine to have reigned on our earth when it was created in the heavens. "John Ruskin, The Poetry of Architecture" These reflections, which compare cottage life to a kind of paradise on earth, show what an idealized vision of rural happiness was rooted in the imagination of 19th-century authors and artists.. This book illustrates their vision: picturesque dwellings surrounded by lush, brightly colored gardens, inhabited by dignified peasants and charming children, all depicted in the golden glow of an eternal sun. The fact that everyday reality for most ordinary peasants was anything but idyllic did not in any way harm this romantic fable that we still enjoy contemplating today, perhaps reflecting a disposition to consider the countryside as another universe where innocence and harmony reign. "Gabrielle TownsendVery nice choice of 56 oils and watercolors - completed with 16 details - by AC STRACHAN, D. WOODLOCK, EK JOHNSON, EA ROWE, Haynes KING, Henry John Yeend KING, H. ALLINGHAM, J.W. USHER, K. BARNARD, MB FOSTER, W. LANGLEY.This beautiful set of scenes from rural life is accompanied by poems and texts by R. L. STEVENSON, DH LAWRENCE, D. WORDSWORTH, WH DAVIES, J. CLARK, O. WILDE, F. THOMPSON, VS. BRONTE, VS. DICKENS, G. ELIOT...Cottages, introduction by Gabrielle TOWNSENDPaperback, illustrated cover (The Cottage Garden, D. WOODLOCK)FEATURESAuthor(s): Gabrielle TownsendEditor(s): Image LibraryRelease date : 2012Dimensions: 29 x 25 cm.Number of pages : 88Main language(s): FRENCHBar code : 9782814400313ISBN: 978-2-8144-0031-3 "And now, goodbye to the cottage, and with it, to the humility of the natural landscape. We leave it with regret; not that we have the slightest intention of living in a cottage, with regard to comfort; not that we prefer mud to marble, pine to mahogany; but with it we leave behind so much of what is most beautiful on earth, the low landscapes peopled with bees, full of humble and quiet emotion, of a calm such as we imagine to have reigned on our earth when it was created in the heavens. " " These reflections, which compare cottage life to a kind of paradise on earth, show what an idealized vision of rural happiness was rooted in the imagination of 19th-century authors and artists.. This book illustrates their vision: picturesque dwellings surrounded by lush, brightly colored gardens, inha
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