The Stones of Venice,9780306812866

The Stones of Venice

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780306812866
ISBN10: 030681286X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-07-10
Publisher(s): Da Capo
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Summary

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 inThe 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."

Author Biography

John Ruskin wrote over forty volumes of art and architecture criticism during the nineteenth century. J. G. Links is the author of Venice for Pleasure.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION 9(4)
BOOK ONE
I. THE QUARRY
13(16)
II. THE VIRTUES OF ARCHITECTURE
29(11)
III. THE SIX DIVISIONS OF ARCHITECTURE
40(5)
IV. THE WALL BASE
45(6)
V. THE WALL VEIL
51(3)
VI. THE WALL CORNICE
54(11)
VII. THE ARCH
65(15)
VIII. THE ROOF
80(3)
IX. THE BUTTRESS
83(8)
X. SUPERIMPOSITION
91(9)
XI. THE MATERIAL OF ORNAMENT
100(12)
XII. TREATMENT OF ORNAMENT
112(11)
BOOK TWO
Part One: The Byzantine Period
I. THE THRONE
123(9)
II. TORCELLO
132(8)
III. ST. MARK'S
140(17)
Part Two: The Gothic Period
IV. THE NATURE OR GOTHIC
157(34)
V. THE DUCAL PALACE
191(33)
Part Three: The Renaissance Period
VI. EARLY RENAISSANCE
224
VII. ROMAN RENAISSANCE
133(103)
VIII. GROTESQUE RENAISSANCE
236(8)
IX. CONCLUSION
244
INDEX

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