The Stones Of Venice
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (609 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 030681286X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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. As Ruskin wrote in 1851, "Thank God I am here, it is a Paradise of Cities.". This edition contains Ruskin's famous essay "The Nature of Gothic," a marvelously descriptive tour of Venice before its postwar restoration
"The enduring, passionate classic on architecture and Venice." -- Washington Post Book World 10/19/03
Good abbreviated edition 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 Renaissance styles; and we see Ruskin's moral and historical purposes. Great insights into the spirit, ethos and values of art and Architechture. Ruskin was the foremost art critic of the Victorian era. This Oxonian was a gentleman of universal and unusual talents.In 'The Stones of Venice' he reviews that fertile depository of so different cross currents of arts, the 'Serenissima Republica', which had no better exit than by sea through the Adriatic.When Marcel Proust visited Venice, hand in book as his guide, he walked and saw through the eyes of . Well worth the journey P. HEIMAN This is abridged version, which is perfectly OK for most of us, as much of the complete version consists of very detailed and hard-to-follow architectural analysis. Some of the writing is brilliant and inspiring. I imagine some will take issue with Ruskin's basic thesis, that art and civilization have been on the decline since somewhere in the early 14th century. A lot of interesting history, well worth
G. John Ruskin wrote over forty volumes of art and architecture criticism during the nineteenth century. J. Links is the author of Venice for Pleasure.