Cover
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Introduction: Tools for Unravelling Heritage
Figure 1 Francesco Guardi, Venice: the Fondamenta Nuove with the Lagoon and the Island of San Michele (1758), oil on canvas, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Part One: Matrices of Topographic Memory
1. The Alps and the Grand Tour
The End of the Grand Tour
Hannibal’s Passage
Figure 1.1 J.M.W. Turner, The Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812), oil on canvas, Tate Britain, London.
Romantic Rocks
Figure 1.2 Philip James de Loutherbourg, set model for The Wonders of Derbyshire; or, Harlequin in the Peak (ca. 1778), pen, gouache, oil, and card, Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Figure 1.3 Philip James de Loutherbourg, An Avalanche in the Alps (1803), oil on canvas, Tate Britain, London.
2. The Laboratory of the Picturesque
Travelling into Substance
Geological Riddles
Figure 2.1 Heinrich Müller, Erste Tafel, worauf das hohe Kaltgebirge, aus Schichten bestehend, mit der Gallmeygrube von Auronzo im Cadorinischen von der Südseite vorgestellt ist (Hacquet, 1785, I, Plate 1).
Figure 2.2 Leopold von Buch, Esquisse d’une carte géologique de la partie orientale du Trentino (1822), Trento, Biblioteca Comunale.
Figure 2.3 Wilhelm Fuchs, coloured plates from Die Venetianer Alpen (1844).
Figure 2.4 Left: Lang Kofel: A Dolomite Mountain in the Grödner-thal (in Murray 1837, p. 248); right: Franz Xaver Schweighofer, Langkofel: Montagne de Dolomie (in Buch, 1823b, Plate 2).
Figure 2.5 Jean-François Albanis Beaumont, Mountain near Belluno (1792, p. 26).
Figure 2.6 Hofer’s House, in Bradshaw’s Notes for Travellers in Tyrol and Vorarlberg (1863, p. 28).
3. The Golden Age of Mountaineering
Alpine Sensationalism
Figure 3.1 Edward Whymper, left: A cannonade on the Matterhorn (1862); right: The Crags of the Matterhorn, During the Storm, Midnight, Aug. 10, 1863 (1893, pp. 126, 175).
Portable Mountains
The Playground of Europe
The Alpine Club Orthodoxy
Part Two: The Invention of the Dolomites
4. The Silver Age of Mountaineering
The Vogue of Italy
The Alpine Tour
Gothic Mountains
Figure 4.1 Josiah Gilbert, The Sasso di Pelmo, from Monte Zucco (Gilbert & Churchill, 1864, p. 395).
Figure 4.2 Josiah Gilbert, Monte Civita and Lake and Village of Alleghe (Gilbert & Churchill, 1864, frontispiece).
Edwards’s Sentimental Voyage
Figure 4.3 Amelia B. Edwards, Sasso di Ronch, from Untrodden Peaks (1889, p. 221).
Figure 4.4 Elizabeth Tuckett, vignettes, from Zigzagging Amongst Dolomites (1871).
5. Titian Country
The Scotland of Italy
Figure 5.1 William Logsdail, The Dolomites, Seen from Venice (Robertson, 1896, frontispiece).
Figure 5.2 Joseph Pennell, Fondamente Nuove (Crawford, 1905, II, p. 313).
Figure 5.3 Josiah Gilbert, The Antelao Seen from Venice, from a Drawing by Mr. Ruskin (1869, p. 22).
Figure 5.5 Josiah Gilbert, Cloud Effects from the ‘Madonna and St. Catherine’ (1869, Plate 4).
The Dolomite Petit Tour
Figure 5.6 Josiah Gilbert, Dolomite Forms in Titian and others of the Venetian School (1869, Plate 12).
Figure 5.7 Josiah Gilbert, The Antelao and Marmarolo, from Titian drawings (1869, Plate 19).
6. Picturesque Mountains
Revelling the Scenery
Picturing the Picturesque
Picturing the Dolomites
Figure 6.1 Elijah Walton, Monte Civita seen from the Lake of Alleghe (1867), oil on canvas, Birmingham Museums and Galleries.
Figure 6.2 Elijah Walton, Clouds: Their Forms and Combinations, lithographs (1868a).
7. Dolomite Close-Ups
Prominent Strongholds
Figure 7.1 Visualization of prominence, by C.M.G. Lee. Vertical arrows show the topographic prominence of three peaks on an island. Dashed lines show the lowest contours, which do not encircle higher peaks. Curved arrows point from a peak to its parent.
Figure 7.2 Left: The Ice Camino; right: The Chimney-Breast on the Little Zinne (Sanger Davies, 1894, pp. 162, 58).
Figure 7.3 Left: The “Little Zinne Traverse” (Showing How Not to Use the Rope); right: A “Firma Loca” (Sanger Davies, 1894, pp. 55, 14).
Dolomite Guides
Figure 7.4 Left: A Camino; right: Luigi Bernard Beginning the Fünffingerspitze (Sanger Davies, 1894, pp. 48, 130).
8. King Laurin’s Garden
Debatable Peaks
The Jewel of Austria’s Crown
Figure 8.1 Grand Hotel Kareersee, photochrome print (1890s), from Photoglob Co., Views of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, The Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Magic Mountains
Figure 8.2 Joseph Madlener, Der Berggeist (1920s), ink, watercolour, and gouache, private collection, sold at Sotheby’s in 2005.
Reginald Farrer’s Rock Garden
Figure 8.3 Bruno Goldschmitt, King Laurin and Dietrich’s von Bern Knights (1911), fresco, Park Hotel Laurin, Bolzano/Bozen.
Figure 8.4 Edward Harrison Compton, From the Hotel at Misurina (Farrer, 1913, p. 32).
Epilogue: Messner Country
Figure 9.1 Messner branded cosmetics at MMM Juval.
Figure 9.2 Poster advertising the biographical film Messner by Andreas Nickel (2012).
Figure 9.3 Visitor book entry, MMM Ripa.
Figure 9.4 In the Homeland of Titian: Itineraries in the Belluno Area, tourist map (Dolomiti Turismo, Belluno).
Figure 9.5 Nicolò Miana, Panoramic view of Venice and the Dolomites, in Miana, Bertolo, & Dello Russo, 2015.
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