{"id":764,"date":"2017-11-28T19:49:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T00:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vineyard-Walk-in-Lucca.jpg"},"modified":"2017-11-28T20:52:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T01:52:47","slug":"vineyard-walk-in-lucca","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"http:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/art\/the-veneration-of-ruskin\/attachment\/vineyard-walk-in-lucca","title":{"rendered":"Our Earthly Existence Must Lead Somewhere"},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"class_list":["post-764","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/a30q3c-ck","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vineyard-Walk-in-Lucca.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vineyard-Walk-in-Lucca.jpg?fit=240%2C300\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vineyard-Walk-in-Lucca.jpg?w=700 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vineyard-Walk-in-Lucca.jpg?resize=600%2C750 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vineyard-Walk-in-Lucca.jpg?resize=240%2C300 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vineyard-Walk-in-Lucca.jpg?resize=260%2C325 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vineyard-Walk-in-Lucca.jpg?resize=160%2C200 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" data-attachment-id=\"764\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/art\/the-veneration-of-ruskin\/attachment\/vineyard-walk-in-lucca\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vineyard-Walk-in-Lucca.jpg?fit=700%2C875\" data-orig-size=\"700,875\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Our Earthly Existence Must Lead Somewhere\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Our Earthly Existence Must Lead Somewhere&lt;br \/&gt;\nby Ric Kasini Kadour&lt;br \/&gt;\n8\u201dx10\u201d; collage; 2017&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Ruskin\u2019s Vineyard Walk at Lucca was exhibited at the Royal Watercolour Society in 1901, the year after Ruskin\u2019s death. He made the watercolor in September 1874 while upset about the deteriorating health of his love interest, Rose La Touche. Christopher Newall notes, \u201cThis extraordinary and powerful drawing has a dynamic quality instilled by the sense of claustrophobic enclosure between a stone wall and a bank, and evokes the walker\u2019s longing for the crest of the path and the view of open countryside and sunlit air that will be achieved.\u201d Like Ambrosius Bosschaert, Osias Beert the Elder (Flemish, 1580 \u2013 1624) depicts blooms at their peak from different seasons as a symbol of the transitory nature of man\u2019s earthly existence.&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:ric@kasinihouse.com&quot;&gt;INQUIRE TO PURCHASE&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Our Earthly Existence Must Lead Somewhere&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vineyard-Walk-in-Lucca.jpg?fit=700%2C875\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our Earthly Existence Must Lead Somewhere<br \/>\nby Ric Kasini Kadour<br \/>\n8\u201dx10\u201d; collage; 2017<\/p>\n<p>Ruskin\u2019s Vineyard Walk at Lucca was exhibited at the Royal Watercolour Society in 1901, the year after Ruskin\u2019s death. He made the watercolor in September 1874 while upset about the deteriorating health of his love interest, Rose La Touche. Christopher Newall notes, \u201cThis extraordinary and powerful drawing has a dynamic quality instilled by the sense of claustrophobic enclosure between a stone wall and a bank, and evokes the walker\u2019s longing for the crest of the path and the view of open countryside and sunlit air that will be achieved.\u201d Like Ambrosius Bosschaert, Osias Beert the Elder (Flemish, 1580 \u2013 1624) depicts blooms at their peak from different seasons as a symbol of the transitory nature of man\u2019s earthly existence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:ric@kasinihouse.com\">INQUIRE TO PURCHASE<\/a><\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>Our Earthly Existence Must Lead Somewhere<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":700,"height":875,"file":"Vineyard-Walk-in-Lucca.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"Vineyard-Walk-in-Lucca-600x750.jpg","width":600,"height":750,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vineyard-Walk-in-Lucca.jpg?fit=600%2C750"},"medium":{"file":"Vineyard-Walk-in-Lucca-240x300.jpg","width":240,"height":300,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vineyard-Walk-in-Lucca.jpg?fit=240%2C300"},"1_column":{"file":"Vineyard-Walk-in-Lucca-600x750.jpg","width":600,"height":750,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"http:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vineyard-Walk-in-Lucca-600x750.jpg"},"2_column":{"file":"Vineyard-Walk-in-Lucca-260x325.jpg","width":260,"height":325,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"http:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vineyard-Walk-in-Lucca-260x325.jpg"},"3_column":{"file":"Vineyard-Walk-in-Lucca-160x200.jpg","width":160,"height":200,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"http:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vineyard-Walk-in-Lucca-160x200.jpg"},"full":{"file":"Vineyard-Walk-in-Lucca.jpg?fit=700%2C875","width":700,"height":875,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vineyard-Walk-in-Lucca.jpg?fit=700%2C875"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":756,"source_url":"http:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vineyard-Walk-in-Lucca.jpg","filename":"Vineyard-Walk-in-Lucca.jpg","filesize":709748,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"wp:attached-to":[{"embeddable":true,"post_type":"post","id":756,"href":"http:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}