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| #826777 in Books | 2003-07-10 | 2003-07-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.63 x.75 x5.50l,.76 | File type: PDF | 264 pages||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Good abbreviated edition|By Scott|This edition of Stones of Venice fills a real need: enough of the whole to give the reader a sense of continuity and arc of Ruskin's argument, but without the countless digressions and details. We get a good lesson in architecture, especially in the virtues of the gothic arch; we get the historical account of the Byzantine, Gothic, and Renaiss||"The enduring, passionate classic on architecture and Venice." -- Washington Post Book World 10/19/03|About the Author|
John Ruskin wrote over forty volumes of art and architecture criticism during
John Ruskin, Victorian England's greatest writer on art and literature, believed himself an adopted son of Venice, and his feelings for this city are exquisitely expressed in The Stones of Venice. This edition contains Ruskin's famous essay "The Nature of Gothic," a marvelously descriptive tour of Venice before its postwar restoration. As Ruskin wrote in 1851, "Thank God I am here, it is a Paradise of Cities."
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