The Stones of Venice, Volume I - The Foundations - Hardcover

Ruskin, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1602067007 ISBN 13: 9781602067004

Publisher: Cosimo Classics, 2013

Synopsis

"More than simply a survey of an ancient city's most significant buildings, The Stones of Venice¿first published in three volumes between 1851 and 1853¿is an expression of a philosophy of art, nature, and morality that goes beyond art history, and has inspired such thinkers as Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, and Mahatma Gandhi. Volume I, intended as the groundwork for the author's subsequent architectural teaching, provides a brief history of Venice and an analysis of architecture¿s functional and ornamental aspects. Unabridged, and containing Ruskin¿s original drawings, this guide to the moral, spiritual, and aesthetic implications of architecture will be appreciated by students and scholars alike. The preeminent art critic of his time, British writer JOHN RUSKIN (1819¿1900) had a profound influence upon European painting, architecture, and aesthetics of the 19th and 20th centuries. His immense body of literary works include Modern Painters, Volume I¿IV (1843¿1856); The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849); Unto This Last (1862); Munera Pulveris (1862¿3); The Crown of Wild Olive (1866); Time and Tide (1867); and Fors Clavigera (1871-84)."

Edition details

• Publisher: Cosimo Classics
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1602067007
• ISBN 13: 9781602067004
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 464