The Stones Of Venice
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (646 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 030681286X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The enduring, passionate classic on architecture and Venice." -- Washington Post Book World 10/19/03
J. G. Links is the author of Venice for Pleasure.. John Ruskin wrote over forty volumes of art and architecture criticism during the nineteenth century
Good abbreviated edition 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, as he tells the story of Venice as a "rise and fall" narrative. There are some surprising omissions, namely, the famous excerpted passage from ". Michael Popolino said Dover Dover 3 Vol. edition is UNABRIDGED Amazon frequently mixes reader reviews of various editions of a given classic work. Such is the case here. Be advised that if you are now veiwing the Dover 3 vol. edition of Ruskin's The Stones of Venice, it is the UNABRIDGED edition of this work. Not a single word is missing. As such, this is the ultimate edition to own.. Vol. edition is UNABRIDGED. Amazon frequently mixes reader reviews of various editions of a given classic work. Such is the case here. Be advised that if you are now veiwing the Dover Dover 3 Vol. edition is UNABRIDGED Amazon frequently mixes reader reviews of various editions of a given classic work. Such is the case here. Be advised that if you are now veiwing the Dover 3 vol. edition of Ruskin's The Stones of Venice, it is the UNABRIDGED edition of this work. Not a single word is missing. As such, this is the ultimate edition to own.. vol. edition of Ruskin's The Stones of Venice, it is the UNABRIDGED edition of this work. Not a single word is missing. As such, this is the ultimate edition to own.. This is only a VERY SHORT EXCERPT!!!! Jerome Claverie This is misleadingnot even 5% of the Ruskin masterwork is printed in this book.
As Ruskin wrote in 1851, "Thank God I am here, it is a Paradise of Cities.". 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